Chennai, March 8 -- Observing that India's colonial-era model of the Governor has outlived its justification and that the office must be fundamentally restructured and depoliticised to function as a neutral constitutional sentinel grounded in accountability, restraint, and federal propriety, the Retd Justice Kurian Joseph Committee formed by the Tamil Nadu government on Union-State relations in its Part-1 report, has recommended rethinking the Office of the Governor.
The panel suggested amendments to Articles 200 and 201 to incorporate binding timelines for assent, return, or reservation of Bills, with deemed assent upon expiry.
The office must be fundamentally restructured and depoliticised to function as a neutral constitutional sentine...