Run At Cross Purposes

The Supreme Court judgement settling the dispute between Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi and the ruling DMK government over the clearing of Bills speaks volumes about the courage demonstrated by the apex Court.

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It has thwarted the Governor’s patently political intent of keeping Bills way beyond a ‘reasonable time’.

The very next day, the SC issued the ruling fixing a maximum time limit of 90 days for the President of the Union to clear any and all Bills that are referred to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. This is yet another bold milestone that is rarely seen these days when the borderline between the executive and the judiciary often gets blurred to the peril of the institution of democracy that rests on the three pillars of the legislature, executive and judiciary functioning independent of one another.