Governor Tamil over RN Ravi. | Photo Credit: Hind
The dates of the Supreme Court for the Governors to decide on the fate of the accounts sent to them for their consent is the offer for the connection of “constitutional silence”.
The text of the Constitution does not specify any deadlines for governors. This led the governors in several opposition countries to sit on accounts.
Despite November 2023, the situation in the state of Pandjab won against the chief secretary of the Governor Pandjab that “the real moce occurs with elected representatives of people in parliamentary form of democracy.
State governments such as West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Panjab and Kerala continue to blame their governors to behave like “political rivals”.
On April 8, however, the JB Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan bench said that any failure of the governors to keep a maximum time limit of three months if they want to withhold consent or reserve accounts for assessing the President. With this, the judgment of 8 April passed one step further from the earlier court decisions, which merely forced the governors to act in the “reasonable time”.
A week before this judgment in the case of Governor Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court made strict remarks against another constitutional silence that facilitated the speakers to delay the decision in disqualification proceedings under the law against the defect.
The notes came from the bench headed by the Justice Bravai 3. April, while reserving the judgment on appeals questioning the monthly delay that the telangana speaker decided on disqualification petitions filed under the law against defective laws (the tenth of the Constitution) against 10 BRS MLA, which moved in the state.
A specific period of time
Justice Gavai said that the court would rectify the “specific time” for speakers or petitions disqualification can end up in “garbage bins” and the tenth schedule would be reduced to mockery. The bench referred to the judgment of the Supreme Court of 2020 in the case of Keshab Meghachandra Singh, stating that within three months it should be decided on disqualification petitions according to the tenth timetable. This was largely followed by violation speakers.
Hearing in the cases of Tamil Nadu and Telangana saw that the Supreme Court explains that it does not want to intervene how the governors or speakers decide, but how much they would have. The constitutional authorities cannot use the constitutional silence to delay the weapons to thwart people, the court underlined.
Published – April 10, 2025 22:19
