Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur is having a tough day in office. The JD(S) and the BJP want him to quickly invite them to form a government in the state but the Congress wants him to declare elections.
As many as 129 MLAs BJP and JD(S) have paraded themselves before the Raj Bhavan and given Thakur sworn affidavits that they have the numbers to form a government. Thakur, though, is no hurry and on Wednesday night advised the Centre to continue with President’s rule in the state for now.
Is Thakur acting impartially or is he favouring the Congress? And after so many controversies over Governors should the post be scrapped? CNN-IBN’s Senior Editor Sagarika Ghose asked this on Face The Nation to a panel comprising a former governor, a constitutional expert and an academic on grassroots democracy
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Romesh Bhandari was the governor of Uttar Pradesh from July 1996 to March 1998—a politically turbulent time in the state during which one Chief Minister held office just for a day.
Subhash C Kashyap is a former secretary general of the Lok Sabha and a writer on constitutional law. Sandeep Shastri is the National Convener of Lokniti Network, a scholars group on Indian politics.
Bhandari, as Governor, sacked the BJP government of Kalyan Singh and was accused of being biased and a Congressman. Is Rameshwar Thakur too being “partisan”?
Courtesy:ibnlive.com
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