Chandrachud's 'brooding wisdom' on Aadhaar may be tomorrow's majority view

Justice D Y Chandrachud's judgement was emphatic about the violation of the right to privacy of the Aadhaar programme

Minority views in constitutional judgments cannot be enforced but they often carry "brooding wisdom", which becomes the majority view after a generation of judges. This has happened in the Supreme Court several times in the past when dissenting views became majority views. Therefore, the dissenting judgment of Justice D Y Chandrachud in the Aadhaar judgment on Wednesday could be carrying seeds of wisdom that might be recognised by a later set of Supreme Court judges. He could be ahead of his time. 

Although the main judgment of the three senior-most judges, written by Justice A K Sikri, has gone against