INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The Union government released constitutional provisions and sobriquets in the Supreme Court on Wednesday to oppose appointing any
role to the Delhi federal government in the transfer and publishing of bureaucrats, before making a last-minute plea to move the vexed
concern to a larger bench.On the final and 5th day of arguments, prior to the SC reserving its verdict on the conflict between the Centre
and Delhi federal government over control on services, solicitor basic Tushar Mehta told a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and
Justices MR Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha that the concern is important for governance of the national capital therefore
that history may not remember us as having actually turned over the capital of our nation to complete anarchy
He likewise requested the court to think about the Centres plea for recommendation of the conflict to a appropriately larger bench ,
pointing out a 9-judge benchs decision relating to Centre-Delhi disagreement in the NDMC case
This drew strong objections from senior advocate AM Singhvi, who argued on behalf of the Delhi federal government
Even the bench did not seem pleased by what it called the new phenomenon of filing composed submissions, then additional ones, followed by
Everyday we get surprised with new written submissions, the judges said even as they permitted the SG to file fresh submissions on the
matter being described a larger bench.The CJI did not appreciate the SGs late raising of a plea for recommendation to bigger bench
You did not argue it at all during the daily hearing
It would not appertain to raise the recommendation problem today, he stated
Singhvi had highly objected to Mehtas plea for a recommendation to a larger bench
This is an ambush argument to postpone adjudication of the vexed issue
It is also unfortunate that the plea for reference to bigger bench was raised at the fag-end of the five-day long argument, although not
even a whisper was made throughout the 2 and half-day long arguments born down behalf of the Union federal government, he said
He said, The basic problem prior to the Constitution bench is the question of federalism and sharing of power between the Union and other
Can the chosen federal government and legislature of Delhi be not trusted with its genuine workout of legislative and executive powers over
services? Referring to Article 239AA, insertion of which in 1991 produced an assembly while a corresponding Act brought to life separate
Delhi federal government, the CJI-led bench said, Article 239AA creates a legal fiction that Parliament can enact laws on all topics of
List-II (State List in Seventh Schedule) over which the Delhi Assembly can enact laws
Thus, Parliament has the power over the State List as far as Delhi is worried
Singhvi yielded and stated, Parliament can definitely pass laws to exceed the laws gone by Delhi Assembly
However till Parliament passes such a law, should the Delhi federal government and assembly be debarred from making law on the subjects in
the State List? He said it would be the death knell for federalism, if an assembly and a chosen government were barred from working out
legislative and executive powers over the state list, which in any case does not include public order, authorities and land for Delhi
The Union is looking for to obliterate the difference between Parliament and Central Government
Under today plan, the Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi has complete play in any unoccupied field of an entry in List II
Approval of the Unions arguments and maintaining of the impugned notice would successfully endow the Union Government with an executive
override over the Legislative Assembly of the NCT of Delhi
This is plainly opposed to the fundamental plan of Article 239AA, he said.
