Sarkaria Commission Recommendation
- Article 356 should be used sparingly
- The institution of all-India service should be strengthened
- Residuary power should remain with the parliament
- Reasons should be communicated to the state when the President vetoes state bills
- Centre should have powers to deploy its armed forces, even without the consent of states. However, it is desirable that the states should be consulted
- Procedure of consulting the chief minister in the appointment of the state governor should be prescribed in the constitution itself
- Governors should be allowed to complete their term of five years
- Commissioner for linguistic minorities should be activated
Punchhi Commission
- Giving a fixed term of five years to the governors and their removal by the process of impeachment
- Union should be extremely restrained in asserting Parliamentary supremacy in matters assigned to the states
- It prescribed certain conditions that one should keep in mind while appointing governors:
- He should be eminent in some walk of life
- He should be a person from outside the state
- He should be a detached figure and not connected with the local politics
- He should not be connected with politics in recent past
- Government should be given a fixed tenure of five years
- Procedure given for the impeachment of the President could be made applicable to governor as well
- Governor should insist on Chief Minister proving his majority on the floor of the house for which he should prescribe a time-limit
- Bommai case guidelines should be kept in mind while deciding cases related to President’s rule
- Inter-state council should be made more use of to further centre-state relations