Article 370: SC Rebuffs Modi Government in a Case of Great Significance to National Politics The court has made it clear that its concern is in toto with determining whether what the Modi government did on August 5,2019 was constitutionally tenable or not. How tenuous the Narendra Modi government’s legal/constitutional case with respect to the reading down of Article 370 may be is suggested by the fact that, at the last minute before the beginning of the hearings of the constitution bench of the top court, it chose to submit a fresh affidavit, detailing its political argument. The said affidavit sings praises of how much betterment has been brought to the erstwhile state after the reading down of Article 370 on August 5, 2019. The attempt thus to shift goal post from the legal/constitutional aspect of the matter to an administrative/political one seems a dead giveaway of how weak it knows itself to be on the constitutional aspect. It is most heartening that the honourable judges ...
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