The Delhi ordinance is an unabashed power-grab (pg 8)(gs 2)
On May 19 this year, the Union government promulgated an ordinance to amend the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCTD) Act, 1991 that eff•ectively nullifi•ed the Supreme Court judgment of May 11 on the powers over bureaucratic appointments in Delhi. • After an eight-year long protracted legal battle, a fi•ve-judge Constitution Bench led by the Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud had unanimously held that the elected government of Delhi had legislative and administrative powers over “services”