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Constituent Assembly Debates. Official Report Wednesday 1st June 1949

1949

"(1) There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head who shall be responsible to the Governor and shall aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his functions et-.!." Sir this is a logical consequence of the general principle of this Draft Constitution namely that the Government is to be upon the collective reponsibility of the entire Cabinet to the legislatu [...] At the same time in the Cabinet the Prime Minister or the Chief Minister or by whatever-title he is described would be the principal Adviser and I would like to fix the responsibility definitely by the Constitution on the Chief Minister the individual Ministers not being in the same position. [...] Constitution does is to lay on the Chief Minister the duty of inforing the Governor of the decisions come to by the Council of Ministers in regard to administrative matters and the legislative programme of the government. [...] All these are subjects which affect the whole body politic and the provinces Cannot remain uneffected they cannot be left free of the policy of the Centre The policy which is evoked in the Centre should be followed by all the States and if the Governors were to be in the hands of the provincial Ministries then there will be various policies in various provinces and the policy of each province s [...] Because the provicial Governments are required to work in subordination to the Central Goernment and therefore in order to see that they do act in subordination to the Central Government the Governor will reserve certain things in order to give the President the opportunity to see that the rules under which the provincial Governments are supposed to act according to the Constitution or in
government politics public policy
Pages
45
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-487 unknown view
Draft Constitution
487-529 unknown view