Governors' Post Should Be "Abolished", Says Trinamool, BJP Responds
NDTV
TMC MP Santanu Sen Commended the recent Supreme Court judgment that governors cannot indefinitely withhold Bills without action.
Commending the recent Supreme Court judgment that governors cannot indefinitely withhold Bills without action, the TMC labelled it a "lesson for the BJP-appointed governors" and called for the abolition of the post, asserting that it is time to terminate its existence.
Governors cannot be at liberty to keep Bills pending indefinitely without any action, the Supreme Court has said while emphasising that the unelected head of the state is entrusted with constitutional powers that cannot be used to thwart the normal course of lawmaking by state legislatures.
Observing that unbridled discretion to the governor would "virtually veto the functioning of the legislative domain by a duly elected legislature, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra said such a course of action would be contrary to fundamental principles of a constitutional democracy based on a Parliamentary pattern of governance.
