States will be at guv's whims if bills held: SC
New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed reservations over the Centre's interpretation of the governor's powers under the Constitution, observing that if a governor could permanently withhold assent to bills passed by an elected state legislature, it would leave the state government at the "whims and fancies" of a nominated office-bearer.
The remarks came on the second day of hearings before a Constitution Bench on a presidential reference under Article 143.
At the heart of Wednesday's arguments was the Centre's reading of the word "withhold" in Article 200, which SG Tushar Mehta argued empowers a governor to reject a bill outright, leaving it to "fall through" without the option of being sent back to the legislature.P...
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