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The Judiciary Is the Last Bastion
There is no real issue on principle. We can easily have a new law, but we need a political rule to make this happen and this is not inside right now. I believe our country is actually in the times of elected autocrats who use domestic institutions to kill democracy. The judiciary under the successive Chief Justice's starting from Chief Justice Kher, two Chief Justice Bobare, was fairly passive and I would say many times submissive. Consequently, the government had no reason to object to the, to the curriculum system. But when the judiciary started to get more assertive, especially after Chief Justice Ramana, Lareth and now Chief Justice Chandrachoud, the government's idea is
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