Kanwal Speaks - May 23, 2015 at 02:56AM

The institution of governor in present day has been reduced to a threat to the federal structure of Indian nation with central government been given the absolute power to appoint and control governors who can in turn issue diktats over the elected government of the states, a clear disrespect to the mandate been given by the people of the states and to their elected governments in due democratic process. In the democratic setup of our country, the legislative council is answerable to the people of the state who ellect its members directly. These elected legislatures have only been given the right to choose the executives of the state who would do the all the work of the administration in their respective states, while the governors as the post are merely the constitutional heads, as defined by the constitution itself, have to work inline and in accordance with the aspirations of the elected executives which enjoy the confidence of the elected legislatures. However the main fault in this system lies in the appointment system of the governors, with governors have not been the elected constitutional heads like a president at the centre but are the appointed ones, in paper though by the president, but in actual based upon on the will of the incumbent governments in the centre, this provision is rather giving the absolute say and actually the total interference to the incumbents of the day in the centre in the matters of the states and in their executive businesses, a clear threat to the federal structure as envisioned by our forefathers for our country. The incumbent in the centre usually appoints their stooges or their otherwise political associates at the crucial postings of governors in the states and then use these governors as their tools to disrupt the normal functioning of any unfavourable governments in the states, as and when in need, which all thus results in total disrespect to the will and ambitions of the electorates of the states who have rather chosen their elected government there, and also to the constitution of India whose preamble itself gives a clear declaration that it is "we the people" who give authority to all the institutions as defined by the constitution and the will of the people is above all the government in our democracy, and in all our democratic institutions as thus. Like the citizens of whole India altogether have been given the right with universal suffrage to directly elect their legislatures and through them indirectly elect their president together at center, the time has come that the similar model should be applied in the appointment of the governors in the states, with the needed constitutional amendments, so thus a governor should be a representative of the people of the state, as a separate identity from the central government, and thus be made answerable to the will and aspirations of the citizens of the state particular, rather than merely been an appointee or bounded employee of the center.. #Kanwal
by अहं सत्य

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