Kashmir: Why amendments to Article 370 may not withstand judicial scrutiny

J&K has not had a govt for months and the Modi govt has consulted the governor who is its own representative. It has effectively consulted itself and it is hard to see how this is legal

"I say with all respect to our Constitution that it just does not matter what your Constitution says; if the people of Kashmir do not want it, it will not go there. Because what is the alternative? The alternative is compulsion and coercion...We have fought in good fight about Kashmir on the field of battle... (and) ...in many a chancellery of the world and in the United Nations, but, above all, we have fought this fight in the hearts and minds of men and women of that State of Jammu and Kashmir."

- Nehru, speaking in the Lok Sabha in