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Caretaker Government
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Recently, after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as Prime Minister of Bangladesh, the other caretaker government is going to take the oath, in the middle of which India reminds Bangladesh caretaker government of its responsibility to protect minorities and also to restore law and order.
About Caretaker Government:
- A caretaker government is a temporary government that performs some governmental duties and functions in a country until a regular government is elected or formed.
- Caretaker governments may be put in place when a government in a parliamentary system is defeated in a motion of no confidence or in the case when the house to which the government is responsible is dissolved, to be in place for an interim period until an election is held and a new government is formed.
- In this sense, in some countries that use a Westminster system of government, the caretaker government is simply the incumbent government, which continues to operate in the interim period between the normal dissolution of parliament for the purpose of holding an election and the formation of a new government after the election results are known.
- Unlike in ordinary times, the caretaker government’s activities are limited by custom and convention.
- In systems where coalition governments are frequent a caretaker government may be installed temporarily while negotiations to form a new coalition take place.
- This usually occurs either immediately after an election in which there is no clear victory or if one coalition government collapses and a new one must be negotiated. Discretionary Powers of President.
- Though the President has no constitutional discretion, he has some situational discretion like in appointment of the Prime Minister when no party has a clear majority in the Lok Sabha or when the Prime Minister in office thes suddenly and there is no obvious successor.
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