The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday May 8 1944

All that is known is that in the Governor's opinion there had been ijustice or misconduct on the part of the Minister in the discharge of the duties of his office. [...] As in the one case so in the other the theoretical justification for the Crown's interference is that the King is ultimately responsible for the welfare of the realm and so he has 'a right to remove from office Ministers whose Continuance' would be in his judment ruinous to the nation. [...] The whole basis of the power being the charge for the welfare of the Kingdom which is supposed to be reposed in the Crown the limits of the power are naturally determined by the measure of the charge left to the Crown and not assumed by the people themselves. [...] The extent to which the Crown is allowed to execise this power and to which the people execise it themselves is an index of where the Sovereignty in fact lies and a measure of the self-rule enjoyed by the people. [...] person is not responsible to Parliament and in all cases the incoming Ministry are costitutionally responsible for the dismissal of their predecessors." The Premier of the Punjab may therefore rightly be put to the defence of his Cabinet before the Legislature on the issue of the dismissal.