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• A three-judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana said the tussle between the Union and Delhi governments over the limited question concerning ‘services’ or bureaucracy required an authoritative pronouncement by a five-judge Bench of the Court.
  
  
• The CJI said the court did not “deem it necessary to revisit” any other issues between the Centre and the Delhi government, which had already been settled in the earlier judgment of the court in 2018.
  
  
• Four years ago, a Constitution Bench had unanimously held that the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi was bound by the “aid and advice” of the popularly-elected Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government and both had to work harmoniously with each other.
  
  
• The 2018 judgment had made it clear that the powers of the Centre and the Delhi government were collective and coextensive.
  
  
• The judgment had not specifically dealt with the issue of ‘services’. The National Capital Territory government had compared its predicament without power over the ‘services’ like that of a king without a kingdom.