Khanna made a U-turn after the entire Delhi Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, met him at Raj Niwas on Monday The Delhi Cabinet prevailed on the LG that the move was "politically disastrous" in an election year Dikshit herself requested the L-G to make a clarification in the media.

This was followed by another delegation of Members of Parliament from Delhi. Several MPs, led by state Congress President J.E Agarwal, wanted the LG to take back the decision.

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Alarge section of people do not have any proof, particularly the poor and migrant workers

Harassmentat the hands of police would have only increased and so would have corruption.

The move would have recalled regimes of the past where movement from one city to the other was made very difficult.

People from Delhi going to other states would have faced harassment at the hands of their police.

A state within a state would have been created in Delhi where the national Capital was made to look like a police state.

Someone driving from one part of the country would have been stopped in Delhi as his license was from the other state. This was against the Central Motor Vehicles Act, passed by the Parliament as licenses issued in any indian state are valid throughout the country.