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The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which the ministry of home affairs tabled in Parliament this week, is another example of the current government’s centralising proclivities and disregard for democratic norms and institutions. The Bill seeks to establish the primacy of the Lieutenant Governor (LG), an appointed agent of the central government, over Delhi’s elected state government, and overturn the spirit and letter of both a 20-year constitutional amendment and a three-year-old Supreme Court verdict.
Delhi’s special status as a Union Territory with an elected legislature was established with the introduction of Article 239AA through the
