The Supreme Court’s choice to uphold the validity of the abrogation of Article 370 has drawn a pointy response from the opposition quarters. The opposition leaders not solely expressed disappointment over the decision but additionally mentioned that their combat would proceed. Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi mentioned that the legitimisation of the Union Government’s choice could have vast penalties.
“There was no doubt that the state is an integral part of India. But being an integral part does not mean that it did not have a distinct constitutional relationship with the Union. This constitutional relationship was made permanent after the dissolution of the constituent assembly of Kashmir,” mentioned Owaisi on X.
He additional mentioned that the largest losers of the Union authorities’s Article 370 choice would be the Dogras of Jammu and Buddhists of Ladakh as they should face demographic change.
“In Bommai’s judgement, the Supreme Court had said that federalism is part of the basic structure of the constitution. Federalism means that the state has its voice and in its area of competence, it has complete freedom to operate. How is it that Parliament can speak in place of the Assembly? How is it that Parliament can pass a resolution that was to be passed by the Assembly in the constitution?” mentioned Owaisi.
The Hyderabad MP additional mentioned that the style by which 370 was abrogated was a violation of constitutional morality. “Even worse, the abrogation, bifurcation and downgrading of the state to union territory is a grand betrayal of the solemn promise that the Union of India had made to the people of Kashmir,” he mentioned.
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1. In 2019, the CJI spoke at a seminar and mentioned that “public deliberation will always be a threat to those who achieved power in its absence.” The query is whether or not you’ll be able to abrogate the particular standing of a state by placing the entire state in curfew, whereas it’s…
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He claimed that the decision has given a free hand to make huge cities a union territory. “Once this has been legitimised, there is nothing stopping the union govt from making Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad or Mumbai a Union Territory. Let’s look at the case of Ladakh, it is being ruled by Lt. Governor, with no democratic representation at all,” he mentioned.
On August 5, 2019, the Central authorities introduced the revocation of the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir granted beneath Article 370 and break up the area into two union territories.
