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UPSC 2022 GS-II · 15 marks · 250 words

Discuss the essential conditions for exercise of the legislative powers by the Governor. Discuss the legality of re-promulgation of ordinances by the Governor without placing them before the Legislature.

What “Discuss” demands

present several distinct facets of the issue and connect them into an argument, giving the competing views real weight rather than one line each.

The characteristic failure: a list of points with no argument running through them.

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  • Art 213 conditions: House not in session, Governor's satisfaction of immediate necessity, instruction from President where bill would need prior sanction
  • Ordinance ceases six weeks after reassembly; must be laid before the House
  • Re-promulgation: D.C. Wadhwa (1987) — Bihar's ordinance raj as fraud on the Constitution; Krishna Kumar Singh (2017) — re-promulgation is constitutionally impermissible, no enduring rights
  • Governor's 'satisfaction' is aid-and-advice bound but judicially examinable post-Bommai reasoning

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