New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- The Central government opposed the idea of the Supreme Court setting deadlines for Governors or the President to act on state Bills, asserting that such matters required political answers rather than judicial intervention.

The submissions were filed through Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta ahead of the Supreme Court's hearing on the Presidential reference matter, scheduled from August 19.

Pertinently, in its submissions, the Centre has stated that merely because there are some issues with regard to the procedure and the powers of the Governor, in terms of his/her assent to Bills, the same cannot result in reducing the highly positioned gubernatorial office into a subservient one.

"The perceived issues, if a...