{"id":232304,"date":"2023-03-18T21:31:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=232304"},"modified":"2023-03-18T21:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T16:01:36","slug":"endless-delay-on-the-conduct-of-governors-and-legislative-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/endless-delay-on-the-conduct-of-governors-and-legislative-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless delay: On the conduct of Governors and legislative agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cEndless delay: On the conduct of Governors and legislative agenda<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>18<sup>th<\/sup> March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS \u2013 2: Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong>Tussle between state government and Governors<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The Supreme court is set to hear a petition from the Telangana Government seeking directions to the Governor to grant assent to the Bills.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the Constitutional Provisions regarding giving assent to the bills?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Governor can either grant assent to a Bill or decline it or reserve it for the President\u2019s consideration. In suitable cases, it may also be returned for reconsideration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, none of this should be based on the Governor\u2019s personal view on the Bill\u2019s content. Governors should only act as per the powers granted by the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/issues-related-to-the-office-of-governor-explained-pointwise\/\"><strong>Issues Related to the Office of Governor &#8211; Explained<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are areas of conflict between the state governments and the Governors?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In Punjab, the Governor delayed summoning the Assembly. The issue was later settled up by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-of-head-governors-have-been-seen-as-partisan-for-decades-they-should-be-accountable-to-centre-state-rajya-sabha\/\"><strong>State Of Head Governors have been seen as partisan for decades. They should be accountable to Centre, state &amp; Rajya Sabha <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What can be the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Constitutional functions should not be held hostage to political and personal differences.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s recent statement that communication amongst constitutional authorities shouldn&#8217;t turn into a &#8220;race to the bottom&#8221; is noteworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cEndless delay: On the conduct of Governors and legislative agenda\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a018th March 2023. Syllabus: GS \u2013 2: Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary Relevance: Tussle between state government and Governors News: The Supreme court is set to hear a petition&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/endless-delay-on-the-conduct-of-governors-and-legislative-agenda\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Endless delay: On the conduct of Governors and legislative agenda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-232304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}