Democracy won...: Arvind Kejriwal after SC verdict in Centre vs Delhi govt case

Soon after the Supreme Court delivered its verdict in a drawnout tussle for power between the Delhi government and the Centre Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday expressed gratitude to the top court and said that democracy won following the judgmentIn a huge win for the Delhi government the Supreme Court today said that in a democratic form of government the real power of administration must rest on the elected arm of the governmentTaking to Twitter Kejriwal said that the pace of development in Delhi will increase manifold with this decisionHeartfelt thanks to the Honble Supreme Court for doing justice to the people of Delhi With this decision the pace of development of Delhi will increase manifold Democracy won Kejriwal tweetedAlso Read Delhi govt has control over services SC on DelhiCentre power rowA Constitution bench of the Supreme Court in a unanimous verdict said that the Delhi government must have control over services and the Lieutenant Governor is bound by its decisionThe court said that the Delhi government similar to other States represents the representative form of government and any further expansion of the Unions power will be contrary to the Constitutional schemePunjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann also reacted to the verdict and said in a Punjabi tweet A warm welcome to the decision of the Honble Supreme Court today in favor of the people of Delhi I sincerely salute the sincere struggle of ArvindKejriwal Ji to save democracy in the country A big victory has been sealed Long live revolutionA fivejudge Constitution bench of CJI Chandrachud and Justices MR Shah Krishna Murari Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha pronounced the judgment on ThursdaySupreme Court held that if administrative services are excluded from the legislative and executive domains the ministers would be excluded from controlling the civil servants who are to implement the executive decisionsIt said that states too have the power but the executive power of the State will be subject to the law existing of the Union It has to be ensured that the governance of States is not taken over by the UnionSupreme Court said in a democratic form of government the real power of administration must rest with the elected government If a democratically elected government is not given the power to control the officers the principle of the triple chain of accountability will be redundantIt said if the officers stop reporting to the ministers or do not abide by their directions the principle of collective responsibility is affectedA fivejudge Constitution bench of CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices MR Shah Krishna Murari Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha pronounced the judgment on ThursdayThe fivejudge bench had reserved its judgment on January 18 this yearGovernance of the national capital has witnessed a power struggle between the Centre and the Delhi government since the Aam Aadmi Party AAP came to power in 2014The case was posted before a Constitution bench after a threejudge bench had in May 2021 decided to send it to a larger bench on a request by the Central governmentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever