Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray. (File picture/PTI)
With out mincing phrases, Thackeray mentioned that the pattern of “activists of political events or organisations just like the RSS who’re named as Governors” is reducing the dignity of this essential publish”
Former Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday demanded that the establishment of state ‘Governor’ have to be scrapped or there must be a correct system in place to nominate folks to this august and essential Constitutional publish.
“The position of former Maharashtra Governor (Bhagat Singh Koshyari) was disgusting, as was clearly uncovered within the Supreme Court docket judgement of yesterday (Might 11). The SC separate verdict yesterday has gone even towards the Governor of Delhi,” mentioned Thackeray.
With out mincing phrases, Thackeray mentioned that the pattern of “activists of political events or organisations just like the RSS who’re named as Governors” is reducing the dignity of this essential publish”.
“They take the oath of workplace as Governors to safeguard and defend the Structure, however that isn’t being carried out, as evident from the SC judgement in each the circumstances of Maharashtra and Delhi yesterday,” Thackeray identified.
The ex-CM mentioned that previously, the workplace of a state Governor commanded a lot respect, however that’s not the case as now the incumbents (Governor) are getting used like some ‘family items’.
“There must be a correct system advanced to nominate folks to the publish of state Governor, on the traces of the judges… Till then, I really feel that the establishment of Governor have to be carried out away with,” demanded Thackeray.
Thackeray’s sharp feedback got here in response to a question on the previous Governor whose position and choices throughout final 12 months’s disaster wherein the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) CM Thackeray was toppled, figured within the apex courtroom verdict.
The SC ruling has made scathing observations on a number of choices of the then Governor, although Koshyari has now declined to touch upon the problems even because the judgement sparked a recent political confrontation in Maharashtra.
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