New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday told the Delhi government that it will consider listing its plea challenging the central government law establishing primacy of the Lieutenant Governor over the elected government controlling services in the national capital.

Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for the AA government, urged a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Mishra that the entire administration has come to a standstill and the case needs to be heard.

The CJI said that at present the case is going on in a bench of nine judges and he will consider this argument.

Currently, a nine-judge bench headed by the CJI is hearing petitions raising the complex legal question of whether private properties can be considered "physical resources of the community" under Article 39(B) of the Constitution. Can, which is part of the Directive Principles of the State. Policy.

The top court had earlier referred to a five-judge Constitution bench the Delhi government's plea challenging the Centre's May 19 ordinance, which took away control of city services and triggered a fresh tussle between the two power centres. Had done it.

Later, the ordinance was replaced by a central law on this issue.