Ep. 134: Kashmir and Article 370
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Constitutional Higgory Jiggery Pokary
Presidential order which was issued on 5th of august attempts to do is to circumvent that through a backdoor they have said that we will amend article 367. They claim that currently there is no state government there and that the governor stands in for that right so it's a backdoor through which now the problem with that as gotham points out is that in effect what they have done is they have used article 370 to amend article 370 itself Which is highly problematic you cannot use any of the provisions of the constitution to amend itselfYou have to invoke the amendment powers of the constitution remind me to ask you about sick him in 1975 i think that's a total rabbit hole i mean like you
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