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    404 : Arunachal Pradesh Deadlock: A Sign of Institutional Crisis

    Ronojoy Sen, Senior Research Fellow at ISAS

    5 February 2016

    The imposition of President's Rule in the north-eastern State of Arunachal Pradesh has been challenged in court. The situation in Arunachal raises troubling questions about India's federalism and the office of State Governors.India's President Pranab Mukherjee's approval on 26 January 2016 of the Union Cabinet's recommendation to impose President's Rule in the north-eastern State of Arunachal Pradesh, whose borders with China are a matter of dispute, has ignited a constitutional debate.