{"id":56607,"date":"2023-11-24T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?post_type=current-affairs&#038;p=56607"},"modified":"2023-11-25T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T12:30:44","slug":"governor-cant-keep-bill-pending-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/governor-cant-keep-bill-pending-indefinitely","title":{"rendered":"Governor Can\u2019t Keep Bill Pending Indefinitely: Supreme Court Underlines Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Context:<\/span> <\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/upsc-notes\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supreme Court<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in its latest judgment ruled that a <\/span><b>\u201cGovernor cannot be at liberty\u201d to keep a \u201cBill pending indefinitely without any action whatsoever\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>More about the news:<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Power to recommend changes:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Governor may recommend reconsideration of the entirety of the Bill or any part thereof and even indicate the desirability of introducing amendments.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the <\/span><b>ultimate decision<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on whether or not to accept the advice of the Governor <\/span><b>belongs to the legislature alone\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Inconsistent with the constitutional provision:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Failure to take a call and keeping a Bill duly passed for indeterminate periods is a course of action inconsistent with the provision under <\/span><b>article 200.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judgment is in response to a <\/span><b>plea by the Punjab government<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against the Governor who had kept pending the Bills sent to him by the state legislature.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Also read-\u00a0 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/states-in-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>States in Supreme Court against their Governors \u2013 Delay in Signing Crucial Bills<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 100.3%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width: 100%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; background-color: rgba(184, 165, 217, 0.53); text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Governor Power to withhold assent of the bill:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Article 200<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> empowers the Governor to withhold assent to the Bill.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Governor must<\/span><b> mandatorily follow the course of action<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of communicating to the State Legislature \u2018<\/span><b>as soon as possible<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 a message warranting the reconsideration of the Bill.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The expression <\/span><b>\u2018as soon as possible<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 is significant. It conveys a constitutional imperative of <\/span><b>expedition.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b><br \/>\nNews Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/governor-cant-keep-bill-pending-indefinitely-sc-underlines-law-9040038\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Express<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: The Supreme Court in its latest judgment ruled that a \u201cGovernor cannot be at liberty\u201d to keep a \u201cBill pending indefinitely without any action whatsoever\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"paper-wise":[2084],"subject":[2124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/56607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/56607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56910,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/56607\/revisions\/56910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56607"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=56607"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=56607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}