A case for Zonal Governors T he Indian federal system mandates that the Governor assisted by Council of minister helm the executive affairs of the state.The institution of governor plays the dual role of constitutional head of the state as well as that of representative of the Union .The Gubernatorial role and powers in our constitution were mostly derived from Government of India Act 1935.The GoI act introduced provincial governorship appointed directly by crown and as head of autonomous ruler of provinces in British India.Post independence the language based state reorganization took place and several new states were carved out from existing provinces and some princely were merged into newly formed states.The Constitutional demand of a separate Governor for each state had to be relaxed to meet the sudden spurt in the number of states ,thus the seventh constitutional amendment act 1956 introduced a clause under Article 153 to appoint same person as gove...
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