1967:

Dharma Vira, the governor of West Bengal, dismissed chief minister Ajay Mukherjee and appointed P C Ghose in his place. He summoned the assembly against the will of Mukherjee.

1977:

Janata government dismissed around 15 governors.

1980:

Governor Prabhudas Patwari from Tamil Nadu was sacked.

1981:

Governor Raghukul Tilak from Rajasthan was sacked.

1984:

Congressman Ram Lal dismissed the NT Rama Rao government and allowed Nadendla Bhaskar Rao as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh for 31 days.

1988:

The Sarkaria Commission Report on Centre-State Relations noted on the Governor’s tenure issue that the constant risk of early termination can leave a Governor feeling insecure, undermining their ability to resist outside pressure and act impartially in discretionary functions.

1989: S.R. Bommai vs Union of India Case

The Supreme Court held that Article 356 is an extreme power to be used only as a last resort where a state government has genuinely collapsed, echoing the Sarkaria Commission’s view. The Court also curtailed the Centre’s ability to dismiss state governments for purely political gain.

1998:

The BJP government removed Gujarat Governor Krishna Pal Singh, who had been appointed by the UPA government.

2001:

The NDA dismissed another UPA-appointed Tamil Nadu governor, M. Fathima Beevi, citing her failure to perform her duties.

2004:

The UPA government dismissed four NDA-appointed governors: Kidar Nath Sahni (Goa), Kailashpati Mishra (Gujarat), Babu Parmanand (Haryana), and Vishnu Kant Shastri (Uttar Pradesh).

2014:

Kamla Beniwal was dismissed on orders of the President. Other governors who left their posts during this term: Puducherry’s Virendra Kataria was sacked; Mizoram’s Vakkom B. Purushothaman resigned over an unwanted transfer to Nagaland; Kamla Beniwal, earlier governor of Gujarat and then Mizoram, was asked to step down; and Uttar Pradesh’s BL Joshi, Chhattisgarh’s Shekhar Dutt, Nagaland’s Ashwani Kumar, Goa’s BV Wanchoo, and West Bengal’s M K Narayan all resigned from their posts.