: Opinion: Follow in footsteps of Presidents #IndiaNEWS #News By Vanam Jwala Narasimha Rao The Governor of Telangana met the Prime Minister and union Home Minister, and later addressed the media that

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Opinion: Follow in footsteps of Presidents #IndiaNEWS #News
By Vanam Jwala Narasimha Rao
The Governor of Telangana met the Prime Minister and union Home Minister, and later addressed the media that (her) government is not bestowing due respect to her. She also mentioned protocol violations to her. The Governor further said that since she was not satisfied with the recommendation of the government to nominate Kaushik Reddy as MLC she kept the issue pending. The media also reported quoting the Governor that had she wanted, the government would have collapsed and everything would be decided by the people.
The Governor’s post and position, which is an important institution in the Indian cooperative federalism, has been subjected to criticism ever since it was created. Our country has the great reputation of dismissing the first-ever elected Communist government in the world in 1959 in Kerala headed by EMS Namboodiripad by Burgula Ramakrishna Rao as Governor, despite full majority. Subsequently, it happened many times both in Congress and non-Congress rule.
Executive Powers
The Chief Minister of a State is the democratically elected Chief Executive. The entire executive powers are under his control. The Governor according to the Constitution is appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. A cursory look may appear that the powers and responsibilities of a Governor are more or less similar to that of the President. But, it is not exactly so. The framers of the Constitution visualised that the Governor use the powers and responsibilities entrusted to him/her through the Constitution, to keep the country united with the spirit of cooperative federalism.
However, a few of them, over a period, in connivance with the union government had abused these powers. In any State, the government that is in power is the government of the Governor and whatever the Governor requires in the State s/he may directly contact the Chief Minister and get it done. This is what happens at the Centre.
Comparing Powers
It may be of interest to compare the powers of the Governor at the State level and the President at the central. An academic discussion advocates that it is the President who is supreme and more powerful than the Prime Minister. Governors have no such enormous powers. If one fundamentally ponders over, before actually going into the niceties, the President is elected by the elected peoples’ representatives of the Lok Sabha and State Legislatures as well as the Rajya Sabha, whereas the Prime Minister is just the leader of the majority party in the Lok Sabha! Thus, certainly, the President is more representative in character. The Prime Minister, however, is the elected Chief Executive.

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