'Regular Interventions By LG Are Hindering Governance'

Relentless Efforts To Usurp Powers Of Elected Govt: Sisodia To SC

- Dhananjay Mahapatra

New Delhi: Launching a broadside against Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena in the Supreme Court, Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has alleged that the Centre through the LG is making relentless unwarranted attempts to usurp powers of the democratically elected government, thereby throttling the federal system of governance.

In an affidavit before the Supreme Court, Sisodia said, “Such regular interventions of the LG have the effect of not just usurping the powers of the duly elected state government so as to not only upset the scheme of federalism and representative democracy, but also harmed public interests in sectors ranging from public health, education, environmental protection, to name a few.”