'Some Battles Are Fought To Be Lost' Kapil Sibal Comments Ahead Of Article 370 Verdict
Samajwadi party Rajya Sabha MP and noted lawyer Kapil Sibal made a cryptic comment on Monday ahead of the Supreme Court”s verdict on the constitutional validity of the abrogation of Article 370. Sibal taking to X, wrote ” Some battles are fought to be lost For history must record the uncomfortable facts for generations to know The right and wrong of institutional actions will be debated for years to come History alone is the final arbiter of the moral compass of historic decisions.”
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Some battles are fought to be lost
For history must record the uncomfortable facts for generations to know
The right and wrong of institutional actions will be debated for years to come
History alone is the final arbiter
of the moral compass of historic decisions— Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) December 11, 2023
The Supreme Court will pronounce the judgement today to the petition filed against Union government”s 2019 move to amend Article 370 of the Constitution. Sibal is one among the advocates representing the petitioners who have challenged the legality of the abrogation of Article 370.
A five-judge Constitution Bench comprising of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant, will deliver the verdict.
The abrogation ended the special status of the conferred to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said that Jammu and Kashmir holds no internal sovereignty after accession to India and that there was no prima facie case that the President”s orders were mala file or extraneous exercise of power.
During a previous hearing of the petition, Sibal had said, “Never in the history of India has a state been converted into a Union Territory,” reports India Today.
He also asserted that no states have been converted to a Union territory but was only bifurcated the borders to make smaller states. “You can carve out but you can”t have all of Madhya Pradesh become a Union Territory one fine day,” he added.
Kapil Sibal in his throughout journey contended that the Article 370 move was purely political based rather than constitutional.
