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