Why delhi is not a state

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Whatsapp Twitter Facebook Linkedin. Encouraged by the Supreme Court verdict, the elected government had stopped sending files on executive matters to the L-G before the implementation of any decision. It has been keeping the L-G abreast of all administrative developments, but not necessarily before implementing or executing any decision. The Bill seeks to add a provision in the original GNCTD Act, , barring the Assembly or its committees from making rules to take up matters concerning day-to-day administration, or to conduct inquiries in relation to administrative decisions.

This assumes significance as the member Assembly, where the AAP has as many as 62 MLAs, has multiple committees examining matters ranging from riots to environment. The L-G does have the power to refer any matter, over which there is a disagreement with the elected government, to the President under Article AA 4.

The Delhi Law Secretary had in written in an internal memo that the elected government cannot use the Supreme Court verdict to keep the L-G in the dark about its decisions as that would prevent him from taking informed decisions on whether to invoke Article AA 4 or not.