Charging that Governors in many States were functioning not as agents of the President of India but as agents of the ruling party at the Centre, Yashwant Sinha, the Presidential candidate fielded by Opposition parties, on Thursday said in Chennai that if he was elected to Rashtrapati Bhavan, he would ensure that Governors did not ill-treat elected State governments.
Mr. Sinha, who had visited Chennai to seek the support of MPs and MLAs from political parties in the DMK-led alliance, said, “Now in State after State, we are seeing the conduct of Governors and how they are misbehaving with elected governments at the State level. That is true, even, unfortunately of the Honourable Governor of this State [Tamil Nadu].”
