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In normal conditions, the Governor is a constitutional executive but in case of constitutional crisis, he can become a powerful and effective executive. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2011
  • 30 marks
  • Principal Organs of Government

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The framers carried the Westminster dual executive into the states: the Governor heads the state and the Chief Minister governs it. B. R. Ambedkar called the discretion clause in Article 163 "a very limited clause". Yet it is precisely this residue that comes alive when no ministry can govern, or when the ministry is itself…

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  • Normal conditions: a head who signs, not decides
  • Crisis: where his own judgement enters
  • The counter-view: crisis power fenced in
  • Conclusion
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