Do the Lieutenant Governors have more powers than the Governors of the States? Explain.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 Two offices, different constitutional design → no flat yes/no → answer turns on which UT
Route 2 Governor = constitutional head (Art 153, Part VI, Art 163 discretion) vs LG = President’s administrator (Art 239) → built-in asymmetry
Governor: advice-bound, limited discretion → LG: Centre’s role stronger → Delhi Art 239AA carves out public order / police / land from the Assembly → LG wider reach than a state Governor here → SC accepts greater power in reserved subjects → but bounded by constitutional morality + no mechanical referral to President
Edge not uniform → Puducherry (239A) lacks the same restrictions → Andaman LG only administers (no legislature) → Khosla: office for crises, not to displace an elected govt → Kashyap: no authority supreme
Route 1 “More powers” holds only for Delhi’s reserved subjects, not as a general rule
Route 2 Asymmetry is territory-specific → LG stronger where the Constitution carves out space; elsewhere the Governor remains the model
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
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How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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