Kejriwal is right in principle, wrong in law: His megalomania is the real problem

Arvind Kejriwal is tilting at the wrong windmill. The media has made his fight a personality clash between an elected Chief Minister and an unelected Lt Governor, Najeeb Jung, but things are not so simple. Kejriwal should know this: the law under which Delhi was converted into a state is the main villain of the piece, not Jung.

So, while Kejriwal is right in principle to demand the right to appoint his own bureaucrats, the constitution gives Jung the effective power in many areas. Unlike the central government and other states, where the elected government is the real power and the President or Governors mere titular heads who are bound by the advice of the council of ministers, in Delhi the Lt Governor (LG) is also the executive authority in many domains.