.Delhi was for long being managed municipally, like any other mega city.Progressing rapidly as the capital,land became a prized asset.As 'the ' power centre, the bureaucracy wanted greater administrative space in a happening city.But none wanted to 'run ' the city with a burgeoning population with the attendant toil and sweat .Babus found the cleverest way.They made it a strange political-administrative animal- half state -half UT !
The ' elected ' Delhi government was evolved as the cart horse to carry the load .Babus kept the police with them ,to imperially ride on Lal batti culture,took away the powers of enacting laws from an elected Assembly that could impinge on their self anointed privileges and of course jurisdiction over capital land valued above gold.
Delhi citizens enjoy but a pseudo democracy wherein they painfully elect 70 MLA s ,an euphemism for work supervisors.The question is why the problem now.The Congress and BJP had tacitly shared the pleasures till the other day when an outsider AAP came in to upset their Apple cart.
The issue has fortuitously come to a boil now.The Apex court has before it the case of the people sending in an elected government on one hand and on the other ,the feudal elite at the capital ruthlessly guarding their fiefdom.The outcome has connotations beyond Delhi.Other states may like to rework the concurrent list.Federalism must go beyond allocating greater share of finances by the centre.It must begin to embrace areas of far greater import.The outcome at the Apex court has less to do with what happens to Kejriwal's government but much more on whether the nation would be gifted with a progressive federalist structure.
The ' elected ' Delhi government was evolved as the cart horse to carry the load .Babus kept the police with them ,to imperially ride on Lal batti culture,took away the powers of enacting laws from an elected Assembly that could impinge on their self anointed privileges and of course jurisdiction over capital land valued above gold.
Delhi citizens enjoy but a pseudo democracy wherein they painfully elect 70 MLA s ,an euphemism for work supervisors.The question is why the problem now.The Congress and BJP had tacitly shared the pleasures till the other day when an outsider AAP came in to upset their Apple cart.
The issue has fortuitously come to a boil now.The Apex court has before it the case of the people sending in an elected government on one hand and on the other ,the feudal elite at the capital ruthlessly guarding their fiefdom.The outcome has connotations beyond Delhi.Other states may like to rework the concurrent list.Federalism must go beyond allocating greater share of finances by the centre.It must begin to embrace areas of far greater import.The outcome at the Apex court has less to do with what happens to Kejriwal's government but much more on whether the nation would be gifted with a progressive federalist structure.
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