Verdict shows both potential for conflict and its resolution lie in the constitutional plan.
The verdict by a Department Bench of the Madras High Court on the respective functions of the chosen routine in Puducherry and the Administrator selected by the President underscores both the intrinsic capacity for dispute in the governance scheme for Union Territories and the manner in which it can be solved. The Bench has done well to state that its role is not to lay down who has recurring control– whether it is the Council of Ministers or the Administrator– however to stress the existing legal framework under which their powers are defined.
