The Sarkaria Commission recommended:
- A governor should be eminent in some walk of life, a person from outside the state, a detached figure not intimately connected with local politics, and not too involved in recent politics.
- It is desirable that a politician from the ruling party at the Centre is not appointed as Governor of a state run by another party.
- The procedure of consultation with the state chief minister should be prescribed in the constitution itself by amending Article 155.
- The Vice-President and Speaker of Lok Sabha may be consulted by the Prime Minister (confidential and informal, not constitutional obligation).