‘Some battles are fought to be lost’: Kapil Sibal ahead of Article 370 verdict
New Delhi: Ahead of the Supreme Court’s verdict on the constitutional validity of the abrogation of Article 370, senior Advocate Kapil Sibal said that some battles are fought to be lost.
Sibal is representing the petitioners who have challenged the legality of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which conferred special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Now, the top court’s take on the issue is slated to address whether the Presidential Order of August 5, 2019, was legally and constitutionally valid.
Sibal, taking to X, said, “The right and wrong of institutional actions will be debated for years to come.”
A five-judge Constitution Bench, comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant, will deliver the verdict on a batch of petitions against the Centre’s decision to revoke Article 370.
During a previous hearing on petitions challenging presidential orders, Sibal had said, “Never in the history of India has a state been converted into a Union Territory.”
“You can change the boundaries of a state, you can bifurcate the boundaries of a large state to make smaller states. But never in the history of this country has a state been converted into a Union Territory,” Sibal had submitted.
“You can carve out but you can’t have all of Madhya Pradesh become a Union Territory one fine day,” he had said.
Sibal has throughout contended that the abrogation of Article 370 was political move, not constitutional.
(Courtesy India Today)