Why can’t they just go?

The occupants of Raj Bhavans across the country were not selected for their impeccable credentials

The nudge from the Central
Government to UPA-appointed
governors to vacate their posts have
come under sharp attack from the
Congress with a few leaders even
terming it “vendetta”. Those hitting out
at the Centre cite the 2010 Supreme
Court order which said that sufficient
reasons should be furnished for
shunting out governors. There should
not be any quarrel with the apex court’s
observation.

But the anti-NDA side is
wrong when it uses the SC argument to
buttress the case for several governors to
continue to hold on to their jobs. For, the
Supreme Court did not go into the issue
of who should be occupying the post of
governors.

The occupants of Raj Bhavans
across the country were not selected for
their impeccable credentials, but for the
services rendered to the previous
dispensation as politicians, bureaucrats
and intelligence officers. Besides, the
UPA, which is now seething with anger,
had earlier removed governors appointed
by the BJP government.

GovernorsNDARaj Bhawan