The BJP-led NDA government’s decision about Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan should not come as a surprise. News of him being shunted out were doing the rounds ever since the new government assumed power at the Centre and the union home ministry began the exercise of reviewing governors appointed during the Congress-led UPA regime. There cannot be two opinions over the fact that the sanctity attached to the governor’s post has fast eroded ever since their appointments and removals took on political colours. And no political party that has come to power in the last 67 years is an exception.

In Mr K Sankaranara- -yanan’s case, the NDA government’s stand was clear, as it had demanded his recall in February this year through a BJP-led delegation comprising Arun Jaitley, who was then the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, and other senior leaders of the party. The group had submitted a 13-point memorandum to the President of India after Sankaranarayanan refused the CBI sanction to prosecute
ex CM Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh housing society scam case.