The constitution | Politics of Governors

The state 's apical tribunal sets a timeline for the processing of authorities authorities bills to forestall governors from stalling legislative concern indefinitely

(Illustration by Nilanjan Das)

On April 8, erstwhile the Supreme Court delivered a landmark verdict in Tamil Nadu vs Governor of Tamil Nadu, it erstwhile again laid bare cardinal questions astir India’s national structure, the limits of gubernatorial discretion and who yet decides erstwhile a law bureau has overstepped its bounds. The apex tribunal invoked its bonzer powers nether Article 142 of the Constitution, which equip it to walk a decree oregon bid to “do implicit justice”. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, whose stint arsenic politician successful West Bengal regularly pitted him against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, promptly denounced Article 142 arsenic a “nuclear rocket against antiauthoritarian forces”.