Saswat Panigrahi
The Narendra Modi-led Government has asked some of the UPA appointed Governors to demit office. Uttar Pradesh Governor BL Joshi has resigned from his post. Chhattisgarh Governor Shekhar Dutt stepped down from his office as this piece was being written. Karnataka Governor HR Bharadwaj, Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal, Punjab Governor Shivraj Patil, Assam Governor JB Patnaik, West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan, Rajasthan Governor Margaret Alva and Nagaland Governor Ashwani Kumar may follow suit very soon.
The Congress is crying foul and called the move ‘arbitrary’ and ‘dictatorial’. Little does the party remember that during the era of Congress-led UPA I, in 2004, the Centre removed the Governors appointed during NDA tenure with a single stroke of pen. They include Vishnu Kant Shastri, Kailashpati Mishra, Babu Parmanand and Kidar Nath Sahani. After giving them an unceremonious exit, the then Congress Government cited a vague a reason to justify the move – their RSS background . This was not the first time that Governors were removed with the change of dispensation. In 1977, Indira Gandhi’s Emergency Regime was voted out and Janata Party Government rode to power. All Governors appointed by Indira Gandhi were asked to demit office. It is pertinent to add that those were the Governors who blatantly used the Raj Bhawan as a platform to manage her nefarious programmes during Emergency days. Now, as the Congress blames BJP-led NDA for ‘political vendetta’, the party surely needs to do some soul searching. Their leaders have been selectively quoting from a May 2010 judgment of the Supreme Court, which states that a change of Government at the Centre is not a ground to remove Governors. But the point they are knowingly missing from the very judgment is that Governors can be removed for ‘valid and compelling reasons’. Narendra Modi Government is absolutely justified in its action to remove Governors almost all of who were political appointees carrying out the Congress’s political agenda of meddling with non-Congress ruled States.
The Narendra Modi-led Government has asked some of the UPA appointed Governors to demit office. Uttar Pradesh Governor BL Joshi has resigned from his post. Chhattisgarh Governor Shekhar Dutt stepped down from his office as this piece was being written. Karnataka Governor HR Bharadwaj, Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal, Punjab Governor Shivraj Patil, Assam Governor JB Patnaik, West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan, Rajasthan Governor Margaret Alva and Nagaland Governor Ashwani Kumar may follow suit very soon.
The Congress is crying foul and called the move ‘arbitrary’ and ‘dictatorial’. Little does the party remember that during the era of Congress-led UPA I, in 2004, the Centre removed the Governors appointed during NDA tenure with a single stroke of pen. They include Vishnu Kant Shastri, Kailashpati Mishra, Babu Parmanand and Kidar Nath Sahani. After giving them an unceremonious exit, the then Congress Government cited a vague a reason to justify the move – their RSS background . This was not the first time that Governors were removed with the change of dispensation. In 1977, Indira Gandhi’s Emergency Regime was voted out and Janata Party Government rode to power. All Governors appointed by Indira Gandhi were asked to demit office. It is pertinent to add that those were the Governors who blatantly used the Raj Bhawan as a platform to manage her nefarious programmes during Emergency days. Now, as the Congress blames BJP-led NDA for ‘political vendetta’, the party surely needs to do some soul searching. Their leaders have been selectively quoting from a May 2010 judgment of the Supreme Court, which states that a change of Government at the Centre is not a ground to remove Governors. But the point they are knowingly missing from the very judgment is that Governors can be removed for ‘valid and compelling reasons’. Narendra Modi Government is absolutely justified in its action to remove Governors almost all of who were political appointees carrying out the Congress’s political agenda of meddling with non-Congress ruled States.
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