Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Constitution expects a Governor to “preserve, protect and defend the law” and work impartially but the office has earned a bad name because of politicians who made Raj Bhavans into their party office.
Goa Governor SC Jamir, a Congressman, in February 2005 dismissed the Manohar Parrikar-led BJP government just hours after it won a controversial confidence vote in the Assembly.
Just a month later in March 2005, Jharkhand Governor Syed Sibte Razi refused to invite the BJP to form a government though the party gave him a letters of support from 41 MLAs in an 81-member House. Instead, Sibte Razi invited Shibu Soren from the JMM-Congress alliance to form the Government. Soren couldn't prove his majority.
The UPA Government has made one most brazen misuse of the Governor’s office. The Union Cabinet in May 2005 approved Bihar Governor Buta Singh's report and then hustled President APJ Abdul Kalam, who was in Moscow, into signing a proclamation dissolving the Bihar Assembly–all of this in the course of one night.
Taking cognizance of the scandal in Bihar, the Supreme Court in January 2006 expressed concern about political persons being appointed as governors. But the Centre seems to be in no mood to listen.. considering that presently over a dozen governors out of the 28 states are from the Congress.
Some prominent ‘Congress’ governors:
ND Tiwari (Andhra Pradesh)
SC Jamir (Goa)
Nawal Kishore Sharma (Gujarat)
SM Krishna (Maharashtra)
Balram Jakhar (Madhya Pradesh)
The BJP's record when it was in power was no better. Some Governoers it appointed in states include:
Kidar Nath Sahni (Goa)
Kailashpati Mishra (Gujarat)
Vishnu Kant Shastri (Uttar Pradesh)
T N Chaturvedi (Karnataka)
Madan Lal Khurana (Rajasthan)
Both the Sarkaria Commission on Centre-State relations and the Constitution review panel, were categorical that those appointed as governors should be persons who have "not taken too great a part in politics". Parties don’t seem to be listening to such advice.
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