'Invasion of Federalism'I In Modi Vs Kejriwal, Abhishek Singhvi On Centre's Ordinance I Barkha Dutt

In a late night ordinance, the Centre moved to reverse a Supreme Court verdict on the wielding of powers by the AAP's Delhi Government. The constitutional bench, headed by Chief Justice Chandrachud had ruled that "administrative powers must remain with the elected government"- giving the AAP the power to post and transfer civil servants. The ordinance reverses that. The Centra has also petitioned the Supreme Court asking for a review of its verdict. The developments comes days after the ouster of Law Minister kiren Riijju. The centre's supporters cite a reference in the verdict whereby CJI Chandrachud said that Parliament could enact a new law. .

Barkha Dutt speaks to eminent Jurist and Congress MP Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi who appeared as the counsel for the Kejriwal government. Singhvi calls the ordinance "a stupendously graceless sign of a poor loser".. He argues that the CJI's comments on Parliament's powers to pass law did not ever mean abandoning the principles of federalism and the basic constitutional principle of bureaucrats reporting to an elected government. "If the BJP wants to change the architecture of how Delhi is organised- if they have the guts, let them pass a constitutional amendment"

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[abhishekranjan]

Modi never fails to show his autocratic nature but he forgets he is the PM of the country that has a constitution and if he doesn’t believe in this then first he should resign as the PM. It’s a shame on democracy that we have such a shameful PM and shameful media

[AvArasu]

This will not be limited to Delhi. This will happen to all the States in they return to power in 2024.

[humptydumpty]

Why Delhiest voters are not seen protesting on the streets against this ordinance?

[Anna_Swamy_Nageshwar]

It is sign that BJP is breaking and lost its mind.

[pradeepkumarsharma]

See the kive streaming in court when it is chalanged

[ssahu]

As the judgement is delivered by a Constitutional Bench it can be overridden only through a Constitutional Amendment.

[pradeepkumarsharma]

Get Mr. Satyendra Jain out of jail if so worried

[wahabrizvi]

BJP was so critical of congress of bringing any ordinance now brazenly do the same even playing with the basic structure of the constitution.

[Dei_Kei]

The audacity to question an SC Constituitional Bench decision and promulgation of an ordinance to the contrary, itself amount to serious contempt of court ! Such audacity shd b curbed and controlled, failing which the Executive will transgress all limits and boundaries ! Clearly, the Executive has little knowledge of the Constituition !!!

[pradeepkumarsharma]

And after listening court will decide what to do rather than discussing in court room

[om]

By the next General Election BJP would have nothing new to offer to the voters emulating the Congress in not upholding the spirit of the Constitution. It seems they have given up any hope of winning in Delhi again and just want to punish the people for rejecting them.

[koolbean]

Bjp does not have the 'data' of how many people died during covid, no of jobs lost and number of business closed but has lots of 'vendetta' on the other parties. For the last 2 terms it has been vendetta politics. Modi and Amit are in the business of M&A with the people of other parties

[pradeepkumarsharma]

Recently was seen at Raghav chaddha engagement

[pradeepkumarsharma]

Defending TMC is correct for this lobby

[anonymousanonymous]

Maybe Rijiju got transferred coz he was not in favor of this ordinance?

[Dei_Kei]

This is exactly what Kejriwal meant when he talked about the "Chauthi Fail Raaja" in Delhi Vidhan Sabha....Gawd, how much waste of National money & public time in these meaningless one-up-man-ship manouevers, these Tughlaqi farmaans shifting the Govt from Delhi to Tughlakabad, this desire for sheer control and autocracy....all at the cost of the Nation !

[RS-dfgr]

Really a great and articulate lawyer !!

[pradeepkumarsharma]

As per this lecture nothing left to the supreme court to decide

[avijitbose]

Abhishek Manu Singhvi ji...Sir... you are a tremendously knowledgeable person. You have achieved this knowledge only through your dedications and hard work. Very nice Sir.
Secondly...Some people are bringing religion in this. One question to them... Can you take the credit to yourself to be a hindu or can your parents take the credit to themselves to give you birth as a Hindu? Does your blood, gene, sex anything tells you a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian. Remember...all these nomenclatures are man made.

[mos]

Desh bhakth alag hai party Bhakth alag hai.