00:00 Delhi was a union territory.
00:02 Now, from union territory, it was given partial statehood.
00:08 So before I get into the bill and what the bill is all about, which is not very complicated,
00:12 it is a very simple way, we will always as usual explain in a very simple way.
00:16 Let us first try and understand what a union territory is in India.
00:22 Unlike the states of India, which have their own government, union territories are federal
00:29 territories administered by the Union Government of India.
00:33 In UTs, the central government appoints the left-hand governor who is the administrator
00:40 and the representative of the President of India.
00:43 However, there are exceptions given to Puducherry and Delhi.
00:47 They have elected legislative governments and they are granted partial statehood under
00:52 the special constitutional amendment.
00:55 Currently, India has 8 union territories, which includes Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar,
01:01 Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Deu, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Lakshadweep
01:09 and Puducherry.
01:11 So we understood what is union territory.
01:14 Union territory are territories which are controlled by the central government.
01:18 Delhi is partially controlled by the, supposedly to be partially controlled by the central
01:24 government, so is Puducherry.
01:27 Now why do you necessarily have a union territory?
01:31 Let us get into that.
01:35 See there are various reasons for formation of union territory.
01:40 Included such territories being too small to be independent or too different economically,
01:45 culturally and geographically to be merged with the surrounding states or financially
01:51 very weak or politically very unstable.
01:56 These are the reasons why you have union territory.
01:58 So they could not survive as a separate administrative unit and needed to be administered by the
02:04 union government.
02:05 Some were made union territories given the location and or the special status.
02:10 I will try and explain this.
02:12 You see, if a state is too, if a territory is too small to be a state, too small to be
02:17 a state or too unstable to be a state or too strategically located in such places where
02:24 it is important that the union government keeps an eye on that particular territory,
02:28 in such cases or it is different to any of the states that it can align with, these territories
02:36 are seen as union territories, UTs as they call.
02:41 So that is why the government, the central government, the union government takes care
02:45 of the administration directly.
02:47 So there is a left hand governor and the left hand governor here reports to the President
02:52 of India.
02:53 That is what it is said.
02:54 So it technically reports to the union government.
02:56 This is what it happens.
02:57 So now we understood what is union territories.
03:00 Now we understood why do we have union territories.
03:03 Teeke, isko side me rakhte hain.
03:05 Now let us get into what is this Delhi Service Bill or the Government of National Capital
03:12 Territory of Delhi Amendment Bill 2023.
03:18 According to the government order, in view of its special status as national capital,
03:24 a scheme of administration has to be formulated by law to balance both local and national
03:31 democratic interest, which are at stake, which would reflect the aspiration of the people
03:37 through joint and collective responsibility of both the governments of India and the government
03:43 of National Capital Territory of Delhi, that is GNCTD.
03:49 This is what the government says.
03:50 See what the government is saying is that, "Baba listen, what is Delhi?
03:54 Delhi is the national capital.
03:56 National capital matlab it is going to affect the larger democratic scope of the country.
04:01 So Delhi is important for the larger democratic scope of the country because it is the national
04:05 capital of the country.
04:07 So since it is the national capital of the country, there has to be a balance of power
04:10 between the local government and the central government.
04:14 The central government has to have enough power to ensure that nothing goes wrong in
04:17 Delhi.
04:18 Because something goes wrong in Delhi, something goes wrong in the country.
04:21 Correct, this is what the government says.
04:24 It further went on to add that a permanent authority headed by the Delhi Chief Minister
04:29 is introduced to make recommendations to the left hand governor regarding matters concerning
04:34 transfer, posting, vigilance and other incidental matters.
04:39 This is where the problem starts.
04:43 Now let us understand the problem in a simple way.
04:46 See kya hota hai ki a Chief Minister technically is not the person who runs the country, who
04:53 actually executes the decisions, policies, is not the Chief Minister.
04:59 It is the Chief Secretary and his team, bureaucracy, which is Chief Secretary, Additional Chief
05:04 Secretary so on and so forth.
05:05 These are the people who actually executes the policies of the government.
05:11 Now what the union government is saying that listen, you know what, ye jo secretaries on
05:16 a secretaries, those IAS officers, those administrators, that the state government will not control
05:22 baba.
05:23 The state government under the Chief Ministership will advise the left hand governor to transfer,
05:30 vigilance, promotion, etc. etc. etc.
05:35 So the advisor here becomes the Chief Minister.
05:39 The Chief Minister can go and recommend to the left hand governor that baba listen ye
05:45 aadmi ko na tura transfer karo.
05:47 This man is not listening to me, he is not doing my job, so please transfer him.
05:51 Or this man know he is very good at it, so kindly transfer him to this particular department
05:55 because I want him with me.
05:57 This is what the government is saying.
06:00 Now who appoints the left hand governor?
06:04 The union government appoints the left hand governor.
06:07 Who does the left hand governor report to?
06:10 Technically the left hand governor reports to the President of India.
06:13 Technically President of India but actually the government of India, the union government
06:16 of India.
06:18 The left hand governor is the person who finally takes all the calls as far as transfers, promotions,
06:25 vigilance etc. is concerned for the administrative staff.
06:28 So now what the government is saying?
06:30 Government is saying baba listen, you have larger democratic interest of the country.
06:36 Delhi is the capital of the country.
06:38 For the larger democratic interest of the country, we need to have some kind of control
06:42 in Delhi.
06:43 Aisa thodi hai ki we will just let it go.
06:45 Fir union government baith ke hum kya karna hai yaha par?
06:48 What are we doing here as union government?
06:50 We have to have some kind of control in Delhi because that will affect the country.
06:54 This is what the union government says.
06:56 Now let us look at it from Arvind Kejriwal's point of view, the CM of Delhi's point of
07:01 view.
07:03 The CM of Delhi fights elections, goes to people, gets their mandate and says that I
07:12 will govern Delhi, I will give you a better Delhi.
07:17 This is what the CM says.
07:20 Now like I told you before my editorial, for a CM, for him to implement his policies, he
07:26 has to depend on his secretaries.
07:28 When I say secretaries, I mean IAS officers, administrative officers.
07:32 He has to depend on them.
07:34 If the CM says baba yeh karo, the administrative officers hai time nahi hai, that's it, that
07:40 will not happen.
07:41 If the CM says that listen, you know what, I need this done in 24 hours, the administrative
07:46 officer says chodo yaar, we will talk after one month.
07:49 CM, if he doesn't have the power to transfer that administrative officer, suspend that
07:54 administrative officer, book that administrative officer, CM is what power then?
08:02 The administrative officer, for him, the CM does not matter anymore.
08:06 Why?
08:07 Because his promotion is done by the LG.
08:09 His transfer done by the LG.
08:13 His vigilance and other things, you know, if at all corruption, corruption and all,
08:17 done by the LG.
08:18 Who can suspend him?
08:20 The LG can suspend him.
08:22 So technically speaking, the CM of Delhi cannot harm him, cannot do anything to him.
08:30 Like me and you, when we go to these government officers and we fall at their feet of this
08:34 administrative officer saying that sir, please kar do, main tax ka paisa deta ho, sab deta
08:39 ho, phir bhi aap bhagwan ho, mera kaam kar do, please do my work, you are God, the way
08:43 we do it, the Chief Minister will also have to do it.
08:46 What difference?
08:47 Administrative secretary will say, fagad hai, humko kya hai, who is he to command me?
08:52 Kuchh kar to nahi sakte.
08:55 Okay.
08:56 I have not once but several times told you, I will speak when I spoke about police, that
09:02 the reason why police crawl on when they are asked to bend by these political masters is
09:07 because ultimately everything about police is controlled by them.
09:11 If you don't listen to your political masters, they will transfer you to a corner where the
09:16 nearest water supply is 1500 kilometers, they will transfer you there.
09:20 If you don't listen to these political masters, they will ensure that you never get an executive
09:25 position.
09:26 You will be in position where there is no job, you will be just sitting there.
09:29 If you don't listen to these political masters, your promotion and all, it will take its own
09:33 sweet time.
09:34 So the police has no other option but to listen to the political masters.
09:39 So what is the power?
09:40 The power of making police listen to the political masters are these promotions, transfers, suspension
09:45 and all that.
09:46 You take it away.
09:47 This is what Arvind Kejriwal is saying.
09:50 Thank you.
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