: Opinion: Let Centre not appoint governors #IndiaNEWS #News By Arun Sinha There is a clear pattern in the way governors have been behaving with the governments in States. The governors in the BJP-ruled

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Opinion: Let Centre not appoint governors #IndiaNEWS #News
By Arun Sinha
There is a clear pattern in the way governors have been behaving with the governments in States. The governors in the BJP-ruled States have a warm, lovey-dovey relationship with their governments. In States where opposition parties friendly to the Modi government are ruling — such as Odisha and Andhra Pradesh — the governors are playing an accommodating and supportive role, going to the extent of publicly praising the governments. Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, recently highly commended the YSRCP government: “Andhra Pradesh is progressing in the right direction. �
Missing Warmth
However, in States where other opposition parties are ruling, the governors have no warmth or words of praise for the governments. They see only darkness there. They see things falling apart. They see murders of rules and homicides of norms.
More often than not they speak the language of the opposition (that is, the BJP) there. In Maharashtra, there was an incident of rape and murder. The BJP orchestrated a demand for a special session of the Assembly to discuss ‘women’s safety and security’. The Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari shot off a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray asking him to convene a two-day special session to discuss the issue. In a characteristic Shiv-Senaesque riposte, Thackeray sent Koshyari a reply requesting him to write a letter to the Central government to convene a four-day special session of Parliament to discuss ‘women’s safety and security’ as it was a “national issue� and “not restricted to any particular state. �
After the State elections in 2019, Koshyari made the BJP legislature party leader Devendra Fadnavis Chief Minister even though he had no letters of support from other parties to claim a majority. Fadnavis had to resign as he could not prove his majority. Soon after the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government was formed, the State Cabinet decided to nominate Uddhav Thackeray to the Legislative Council. But Koshyari refused to approve the Cabinet decision for months, despite repeated requests to him to do so. A point came when it seemed six months would pass and Thackeray would have to resign. Why did Koshyari keep Thackeray on tenterhooks? To compel him to return to alliance with the BJP? There is no proof of this available, but it looks plausible, because Koshyari’s actions or non-actions in several cases have been adverse to the MVA government and favourable to the BJP.
The Koshyari-Thackeray crossfire in Maharashtra looks like a gentleman’s game compared to what has been going on between Jagdeep Dhankhar and Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal.

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