The Article 370 is labelled “Temporary provisions with respect to the State of Jammu and Kashmir”, and is included in Chapter 21 of the Constitution dealing with “Temporary, Transitional & Special” provisions. High time this temporary provision was done away with. Dr Subramanian Swamy tweeted on 20 June 2018: “Anyone who says Art 370 abolition needs Parliament approval is either ignorant of the Constitution or an illiterate. It just needs a Presidential Notification of a Cabinet Resolution.”

