Deciding a petition on Friday, the Bombay high court has put the ball in the Maharashtra governor’s court in the issue related to the delay in appointing 12 persons to the upper house. It said the governor has the constitutional obligation to either accept or reject within a reasonable time the proposal that the Maha Vikas Aghadi Government had sent him in November 2020.

The court said the governor was not answerable to it but hoped and trusted that the constitutional obligation was fulfilled without much delay. “In the present case, eight months have passed. This is a reasonable time according to us. It is important that the obligation of the governor in the present case is discharged without much delay,” the court said.