PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said her party will continue its struggle for the restoration of special status to Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that the Supreme Court's decision on Article 370 is "not God's verdict".
The Court pointed out that the provisions of the Constitution of India had been, step by step, between 1950 and 2019, extended to J&K and the ‘abrogation’ of Article 370 (a temporary provision) was the culmination of the process.
The verdict has reignited an old debate on India’s polity is the country a Union of states or does the Constitution envisage it as federal? The Supreme Court has let itself down with its lack of clarity
The clarion call of the legal verdict reverberates Article 370 was, by its very nature, a transient provision, a pawn in the hands of a few, wielded to sow seeds of division within our nation
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the Centre government's decision of August 2019 to abrogate Article 370, which bestowed a special status on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.