A day after the Supreme Court ruled that executive powers, except for law and order, police and land, were vested in the elected government, the jostling for supremacy in Delhi escalated on Thursday with the Aam Aadmi Party government taking on the bureaucrats. Following the court verdict, Delhi government said chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, and not the lieutenant governor, was the approving authority on the transfers and posting of officers from the IAS and other cadres. With the officers refusing to accept the new protocol, the state government threatened to file contempt of court cases if they did not follow its orders.

A day after the Supreme Court ruled that executive powers, except for law and order, police and land, were vested in the elected government, the jostling for supremacy in Delhi escalated on Thursday with the Aam Aadmi Party government taking on the bureaucrats. Following the court verdict, Delhi government said chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, and not the lieutenant governor, was the approving authority on the transfers and posting of officers from the IAS and other cadres. With the officers refusing to accept the new protocol, the state government threatened to file contempt of court cases if they did not follow its orders.