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Looking at the build up in the last few days one can assume that govt wants to either trifurcate the state or abolish Article 370. They have the numbers in the parliament to push through any amendment, but will it pass muster in the Supreme Court ?

Governor administers the state on behalf of the union government. You have to remember assembly is legislature and not the executive and much the same way executive is not legislature. Executive office cannot enact laws or abolish old laws.

The governor can take over administration, but he cannot enact new laws or declare cessation of laws already operating in the state.

This is what, thanks to the Article 370, makes J&K different from other states. All changes to the constitution pertaining to Kashmir will require acquiesce of the J&K assembly. If Article 370 was operational in Andhra, then assent of the assembly for bifurcation would have been a prerequisite.

state assembly and the governor are separate constitutional entities. If an assembly ceases to exist, the governor does not automatically represent the people state or have the powers to enact laws. He is just the representative of the central government.

Scrapping section 35A should not be a big deal. However it's my opinion that trifurcation or amendment to Article 370 requires assent of the J&K assembly. I'm not sure what what path the government has discovered to skirt around this conundrum.

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