MUMBAI: Shiv Sena on Wednesday mounted a bitter attack on Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari for sitting on the state government’s nomination of 12 members for the legislative council (MLCs) in its mouthpiece, and urged PM Narendra Modi to intervene.
The Uddhav Thackeray government had nominated the dozen on November 6, 2020. The file is yet to be cleared.
The editorial in Saamna said Koshyari has so devalued the post of governor that it has become a matter of joke everywhere. “His parent political party, BJP, is more responsible for devaluing the post than Koshyari,” it added.
“Bombay high court also made fun of the governor in soft and sophisticated language, saying eight months is a little too much to take a decision on 12 nominated members. It is binding on him to make a decision,” the editorial said.
Sena said despite the HC remarks, the governor is not ready to follow his constitutional duty. “The governor seems to be saying, forget the 12 members’ nomination until his ‘favourite government’ comes to the power in Maharashtra,” the piece said.
“He (governor) is the political agent of the Centre. By delaying the nomination proposal, he is making fun of himself and behaving in an unconstitutional and biased manner. If he is working under pressure from his parent political party, PM Narendra Modi should intervene and stop further devaluation of the constitution and democracy. Raj Bhavan cannot help change the government in the state. No one would surrender like Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, as has been proved in in West Bengal and Maharashtra,” it added.
