{"id":16764,"date":"2023-11-07T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T03:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16764"},"modified":"2025-04-04T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:34:45","slug":"power-of-the-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/power-of-the-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Power of the Governor over State Bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Power of the Governor over State Bills<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Article 200 of the Indian Constitution\u00a0includes the process for a state bill to be presented to the Governor\u00a0for assent.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0provides for four alternative courses of action\u00a0for a Governor\u00a0when a bill after being passed by the legislature,\u00a0is presented to him\/her for assent.\n<ul>\n<li>Give assent to the bill<\/li>\n<li>Withhold assent<\/li>\n<li>Return the bill to the state legislature, requesting\u00a0to reconsider\u00a0some provisions of the bill,\u00a0or the bill itself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>However, if\u00a0the\u00a0legislature again passes the bill with\/without accepting any of the amendments suggested by the\u00a0Governor, it\u00a0is constitutionally bound to give assent to the Bill.\n<ul>\n<li>Reserve the bill for the\u00a0consideration of the President<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This\u00a0reservation is mandatory\u00a0when the bill passed by the State Legislature\u00a0endangers the position of the State High Court.<\/li>\n<li>Article 201:\n<ul>\n<li>It states that\u00a0when a bill is reserved\u00a0for the consideration of the\u00a0President,\u00a0the President can give\u00a0assent to the bill or withhold assent.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0President may also direct the Governor to return the bill (if it is not a Money Bill)\u00a0to the House or Houses of the\u00a0Legislature of the State\u00a0for reconsideration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>However, the\u00a0Governor can reserve a bill\u00a0and not grant assent in certain circumstances. This includes if the bill is\n<ul>\n<li>against the provisions of the\u00a0Constitution<\/li>\n<li>opposed to the Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP)<\/li>\n<li>against\u00a0the\u00a0larger interest of the country<\/li>\n<li>of\u00a0grave national importance<\/li>\n<li>deals with compulsory acquisition of property\u00a0under Article 31A of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Previous rulings of SC:\n<ul>\n<li>A Constitution Bench clarified that the\u00a0Constitution does not impose any time limit within\u00a0which the\u00a0Governor should provide assent to bills.<\/li>\n<li>However, it maintained that the\u00a0Governor must honour the will of the Legislature and can\u00a0act only in harmony with their\u00a0Council of Ministers.<\/li>\n<li>It also noted that causing\u00a0delay to assent bills will be an arbitrary exercise, which in itself is\u00a0against the spirit of the constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Directive Principles of State Policies (DPSPs)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Constitution lays down certain Directive Principles of State Policy, which though not justiciable, are &#8216;fundamental in governance of the country&#8217;, and it is the duty of the State to apply these principles in making laws. These lay down that the State shall strive to promote the welfare of people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may, a social order, in which justice-social, economic and political-shall form in all institutions of national life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barandbench.com\/news\/governors-must-act-bills-state-legislature-before-matter-comes-to-supreme-court-punjab-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Governor must act on Bills passed by State legislature: Supreme Court on Punjab Governor&#8217;s inaction<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 200 of the Indian Constitution includes the process for a state bill to be presented to the Governor for assent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}