Uttar Pradesh Governor, Ram Naik had kept the list of nine names for appointment to the Legislative Council on hold for over a month, giving his approval to four names last month.
Justifying his decision to hold back some names sent by the Samajwadi Party government for appointing of members to the legislative council, Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik said that he was following the rule-book on the issue.
The Governor had objected to five of the nine names sent to him. He had asked the state government to conduct an inquiry due to complaint against them.
"The state government had sent me some names for appointment as MLCs. The Raj Bhawan did legitimate work. The files which were as per the Constitution were cleared. Good governance gets strengthened by working as per law and Constitution," Mr Naik said.
The Governor had kept the list of nine names on hold for over a month, giving his approval to four names last month. He has asked for more information about the remaining five names, sending complaints received about them to the Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav, and desired that an inquiry be conducted to find out the truth.
Mr Naik approved the names of SRS Yadav, Lilawati Kushwaha, Ram Vriksh Singh Yadav and Jitendra Yadav for nomination to the Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad). The five names on which the Governor had objection are of Kamlesh Pathak, Sanjay Seth, Ranvijay Singh, Abdul Sarfaraz Khan and Rajpal Kashyap.
The Governor also desired that the provisions with regard to nomination of persons making exemplary contribution in the field of art, literature, science, social work should be followed in "letter and spirit" of the Constitution.
The Governor, who was in Bareilly to address a conference, also asked the state government to wait for a decision on Lokayukta issue, as the Lokayukta Amendment Bill was being examined.
On August 25, he had returned the file for appointment of Lokayukta saying that the Governor was not bound to accept Cabinet's recommendation, after the state government had recommended the name of Justice (retired) Ravindra Singh for the post.