Hyderabad: For Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s plan for early polls to the assembly to go smoothly, he needs the cooperation of three Constitutional institutions to implement it. Once the assembly is dissolved, the ball will go to the central government’s court. As per CM KCR’s reported plans to hold assembly elections in December, he requires the support of the Governor, Central government and Central Election Commission (EC).
In this process, the first thing to be done by the State government is to pass a resolution in the cabinet requesting the Governor to recommend that the President of India dissolve the assembly.
The recommendation of the cabinet will not be binding on the Governor, because before recommending it to the President of India he must ensure that no other political party / along with coalition partners can form an alternative government. After receiving the communication from the President of India on dissolving the assembly, the EC will issue a notification and start the election process.
If the Chief Minister of any state has cordial relations with the Governor and Central government, everything will go smoothly. But if the central government wants, it can create any hurdle in this process. It is no secret that the Governor’s institution and sometimes the EC goes according to the directions of the central government.
TS CM KCR has good relations with the Governor and also with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. So he may not face any hurdles from the Governor and central government. The President of India also acts on the advice of the union cabinet.
The main problem will come from the EC. After receiving the communication from President of India, the EC will notify the dissolution of the state assembly and after that within six months it has to conduct the assembly elections.
According to the Constitution, if any seat falls vacant in the assembly or Parliament, within six months the EC has to conduct the by-election. In fact, in the Constitution there is no provision regarding conducting of elections within six months after dissolution of the assembly. But the Supreme Court has directed in the past that assembly elections be held within six months after its dissolution taking into consideration the by-elections rules.
