MM Punchhi Commission also recommended that:

♤ The governor should follow “constitutional conventions” in a case of a hung Assembly.

♤ It suggested a provision of ‘Localized Emergency’ by which the central government can

tackle issue at town/district level without dissolving the state legislative assembly.

Also the Supreme Court in the Bommai Judgement of 1994 accorded primacy to a floor test as a check of majority. The court also said that the power under Article 356 is extraordinary and must be used wisely and not for political gain. The verdict concluded that the power of the President to dismiss a State government is not absolute. The verdict said the President should exercise the power only after his proclamation (imposing his/her rule) is approved by both Houses of Parliament. Till then, the Court said, the President can only suspend the Legislative Assembly by suspending the provisions of Constitution relating to the Legislative Assembly. Later in the Rameshwar Prasad Case (2006), the court observed that Governor cannot shut out post-poll alliances altogether as one of the ways in which a popular government may be formed.