Ramaswami: The Modi government clearly lacks an institutional view and suffers from conceptual disarray, which makes it blind with regard to the essence of constitutional commitments when it comes to its dealing with Jammu and Kashmir. The last eight months have already seen the inexplicable-virtually everyone who could raise a voice, viciously muzzled in the aftermath of Article 370 abrogation. The August 5, 2019 decision of the center to abrogate Articles 35-A and 370 are pending before the Supreme Court and bringing domicile notification at the moment is akin to contempt of the court. How can government of India issue any order when the matter is sub-judice? The arbitrary decision of the BJP government to revoke Articles 35-A and 370 was the murder of democracy and an attack on the Constitution. The BJP violated the norms to convert J and K state into a union territory overnight without the consent of the stakeholders. The centre was defying all democratic norms to achieve its objects. There are many places in India, like the tribal areas of Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Sikkim, where people from rest of the country cannot buy land, why target J&K only? It is not a question of Muslim versus Hindu, but local versus non-local. When Maharaja Hari Singh was ruling J and K in 1927, Dogras and Kashmiri Pandits, who were more educated, got domicile guarantees. They ensured that no outsiders must come and buy land or get jobs in J and K. The Maharaja brought State subject in 1927 and made it into a law. No one objected then.