Can the central government and Parliament change the definition of Government in the Constitution to mean the Lt. Governor?
Can the central government and Parliament insist that a state assembly must have rules similar to the ones in the Lok Sabha when rules of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha are not the same?
And, finally, can the central government or Parliament insist that the elected state government must secure prior permission from the Lt Governor before taking any executive decision even in areas where the state legislature is competent to make laws?
All three changes have been made in the GNCTD (Amendment Act), 2021 pertaining to the Delhi Government; and unless the Supreme Court overturns them, it could embolden the Centre to put parliamentary democracy and federalism on their head, says a statement signed by 76 former bureaucrats. The changes are unconstitutional, the statement says.
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This is the text of the statement released by the Constitution Conduct Group, a collective of retired bureaucrats, on Friday:
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