WORLD IN BRIEF : INDIA : New Premier Asks Governors to Resign
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
India’s new government ordered the mass resignation of the governors of the country’s 25 states, the interior minister said. It was the first major purge ordered by new Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh. Governors, appointed by New Delhi, have a mostly ceremonial role but can assume executive power in a political crisis.
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