On 4 July the Supreme Court addressed the core of Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party government’s frustrations with the Lt Governor (L-G) by clarifying his powers vis-à-vis an elected government. A five-judge constitutional bench held in three separate but concurring judgements that the people’s representatives should have priority in all matters other than the subjects of land, police and public order, which are in the L-G’s hands. In other matters the L-G is “bound by the aid and advice o