When Is President's Rule Imposed?
In practice president's rule has been imposed under different circumstances such as these:
- State Legislature is unable to elect a leader as Chief Minister
- Breakdown of a coalition
- Irretrivable breakdown of law and order
- Rebellion or insurgency in a part of India
- Elections postponed for unavoidable reasons
- Most often, until the mid-1990s, it was been in states due to the misuse of Governor's authority in collusion with the decision of the Government in power at the center (Federal Government). However, after a Historic and Landmark Judgment by the Supreme Court of India in the S. R. Bommai (Ex - Chief Minister of Karnataka) Case, such misuse has reduced drastically.
Read more about this topic: President's Rule
Famous quotes containing the words president and/or rule:
“Taft, laughing, “What troubles [brother] Charles is, he is afraid Roosevelt will get the credit of making me President and not himself.” To Charles: “I will agree not to minimize the part you played in making me President if you will agree not to minimize the part Roosevelt played.””
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven’t fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)