With assembly elections in Karnataka round the corner, senior Congress leader S M Krishna on Wednesday resigned as Maharashtra Governor after the party asked him to take the plunge in the fight against a resurgent BJP and a well-rooted JD(S). Krishna, a former Chief Minister, met President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhawan and conveyed his decision to resign after just over three years in the gubernatorial post in Mumbai. A little later, he sent his resignation.
Krishna will replace Mohammad Fazal.
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Former Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna passed away at his residence in Bengaluru early Tuesday morning, his family said.
S M Krishna, who was until recently the chief minister of neighbouring Karnataka, takes over from Mohammed Fazal.
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Krishna is the second former chief minister of Congress to be made governor.
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"He [Krishna] is the governor of the state and not of any party," caretaker Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee spokesman Anant Gadgil said.
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance, which secured a landslide victory in the recent Maharashtra assembly elections, is set to form the new government in the state. Outgoing Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, his deputies Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar met Union Home Minister Amit Shah to finalize a power-sharing agreement. The alliance partners, BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP, will decide on ministerial berths at the meeting with Shah. Political circles are abuzz about the social equations in Maharashtra influencing the choice of the next Chief Minister.
Krishna, who is the former chief minister of Karnataka, will be joining the Congress campaign in the state after he quit the post of Maharashtra governor, a few weeks back. A huge welcome has been planned for Krishna at Bangalore. His supporters led by former minister and Congress leaders D K Shivakumar have organised a roadshow in the city.
The governor of a state is not empowered to enter the political arena and play a role in inter-party or intra-party disputes, the Supreme Court said on Thursday, holding that the discretion exercised by then Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari asking Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to face a floor test was "not in accordance with law".
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi had on Sunday deliberated on the issue of Rajya Sabha nominations from Karnataka with senior party leaders. There are reports of talks between the Congress and H D Deve Gowda-led JD(S) for a possible tie-up for the Rajya Sabha polls.
The Supreme Court on Thursday held the Maharashtra governor was not justified in calling upon then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to prove his majority in the assembly on June 30 last year but refused to order the status quo ante, saying he did not face the floor test and resigned.
Krishna said that these two leaders 'have taken the country to great heights and this is not an exaggeration'.
The Supreme Court said on Wednesday the issues related to the Maharashtra political crisis, triggered by the differences in the Shiv Sena, are "tough" constitutional questions to decide as they have "very serious" ramifications for the polity.
Calling for a trust vote merely on the ground of differences between MLAs of a ruling party can topple an elected government, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday, adding that the governor of a state cannot lend his office to effectuate a particular result.
The Krishna lobby is growing with every passing day. Several supporters like D K Shivakumar have already made trips to New Delhi to convince the party bosses to bring the former chief minister back to mainstream politics
Last week, Maharashtra Governor S M Krishna cleared the state's proposal to raise Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) through bonds to finance incomplete irrigation projects.
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A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli, which was urged by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the Uddhav Thackeray faction, that the matters required urgent listing and hearing, has now fixed as many as five petitions for hearing on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to refer pleas related to the June 2022 Maharashtra political crisis triggered by the Shiv Sena's division to a seven-judge bench for reconsideration of the 2016 Nabam Rebia judgment.
The Congressman is said to have written a letter to party president Sonia Gandhi apprising her of his decision.
On January 29, Krishna resigned from all the posts held by him in the grand old party.
Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal told a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud that Koshyari had sworn in Shinde without even asking him which party he and the other legislators supporting him belonged to.
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of cross-petitions of Uddhav Thackeray and CM Eknath Shinde factions pertaining to the Maharashtra political crisis.
Parts of Raigad, Ratnagiri districts in the coastal Konkan region and Kolhapur district in western Maharashtra, have been worst affected by the floods. Besides that, heavy rains have been pounding parts of Satara district.
The Supreme Court said on Thursday that once a government is democratically elected in accordance with law, there is a presumption that it enjoys the confidence of the house and there must exist some objective material to dislodge this presumption.
The CJI told lawyer Singhvi, "No, but status quo ante would have been a logical thing to do provided that you had lost the trust vote on the floor of the house. Because, then clearly you have been ousted from power based on the trust vote, which could be set aside. Look at the intellectual conundrum. You chose not to face the trust vote."
Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde's faction on Thursday told the Supreme Court that pleas related to the June 2022 Maharashtra political crisis fell within the realm of politics and judiciary cannot be asked to adjudicate the issue.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Eknath Shinde-led faction if its move to go against the Shiv Sena party's wish to continue with the coalition in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) amounted to indiscipline leading to disqualification.
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The Congress high command has made it clear that he is not being projected as the chief ministerial candidate. The party maintains that Mallikarjuna Kharge, president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee will be the first choice for the post of chief minister. The party feels that projecting Kharge as the CM candidate would boost the party's chances to get into a post-poll alliance with the Janata Dal-Secular, which is expected to be a key player in the next polls.
Sources in the Congress say Kharge and Krishna will be in the fray and the final candidature would be decided on the results of the elections. Congressmen told rediff.com that if the party is able to form the government on its own, there is every possibility of Krishna being made CM. However, if the Congress has to enter into a pact with the JD-S, then they would have no choice but to make Kharge the CM.
The ruling Eknath Shinde camp in Maharashtra told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the rival side led by Uddhav Thackeray wanted the speaker of the state assembly to "usurp" the powers of the Election Commission when the ultimate test of majority in a democracy -- the floor test -- was ordered by the governor during the 2022 political crisis.
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