When Modi Govt Disregarded Pranab Mukherjee's Advice To Delay Imposition Of Prez Rule In Uttarakhand By 36 Hours
Author-Journalist Rasheed Kidwai tells about the time when Modi Govt Disregarded Pranab Mukherjee's Advice To Delay Imposition Of Prez Rule as mentioned in the former President's memoirs-The Presidential Years
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Prime Minister Modi presided over a cabinet meeting and the Centre decided to recommend President’s Rule. On 26 March 2016. Mukherjee records that at around 11.15 pm, Arun Jaitley, the then union minister of finance, and Nripendra Misra, principal secretary to the Prime minister, called on him in the study to brief him about the union cabinet decision.
“At the outset, I told them that the government should wait for 36 hours before making a decision. I made it clear that such decisions should be in keeping with the various judicial pronouncements on the subject, including that in the Dharam Vira and the S.R. Bommai cases.