The role and actions of Governors have once again become a subject of political discourse in the country, especially in the context of their conduct in non-BJP, Opposition-ruled States. Recently, a High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations, constituted by the Tamil Nadu Government and chaired by Justice (retired) Kurian Joseph, recommended ways to ensure Governors do...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Home Minister G Parameshwara have refuted Opposition leaders’ allegations that the Congress government was using its intelligence department to keep tabs on its own legislators—including phone tapping—in the wake of a power struggle between the CM and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar. “After our party came to power, unemployed...