FOCUS - JULY 2025

Presidential Powers vis-à-vis Supreme Court Intervention The problem between the office of the Governor and state governments in India is perhaps as old as the days of independence in 1947. But it became more acute much later due to political compulsions of ruling dispensation at the centre. Governor overstepping his constitutional brief has always been a bone of contention with the state governments, if the state government happens to be of a political outfit not in alignment with the political dispensation at the centre, as it has been happening with the Tamil Nadu government led by DMK with MK Stalin, as the Chief Minister and the Governor RN Ravi, appointed by BJP led NDA government at the centre. Governor Ravi had, in a way, made life difficult for the Tamil Nadu government. He had held back clearance of some 10 legislations since long and was sitting on it. TN government had to take recourse to the options available to it, to break the impasse. So they knocked the door of Supre...