Published on : 20 Nov 2025, 11:46 am 9 min read

The Supreme Court on Thursday answered a reference made by the President Droupadi Murmu on interpretation of powers of the Governor under Articles 200 and 201 of the Constitution.

It was the 16th reference that a President had made to the Supreme Court under Article 143 of the Constitution of India in its 75-year history. Except one, the top court had answered all the references in part or full.

The latest reference arose after a two-judge bench's decision in The State of Tamil Nadu v The Governor of Tamil Nadu and Anr .

In the April 2025 ruling, a bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan ruled that there was no scope of inaction under Article 200 and fixed timelines for acting on the bills presented to him for as

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