Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik is within his constitutional right to question the continuation of the absconding Gayatri Prajapati, who is accused of rape, as a minister in Akhilesh Yadav’s (pictured) cabinet on the grounds of “constitutional morality and dignity”. It is a different matter that such concerns were not raised in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Gujarat where a minister reportedly continued in the state cabinet even after his conviction. The BJP, too, is justified in questioning the UP police for failure to apprehend the minister, as the same force had traced stolen buffaloes of an influential minister. This