New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Marking the seventh anniversary of the J-K bifurcation, senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday brought focus back to the unsettled legal architecture underpinning the transition.

Echoing concerns shared by various constitutional jurists and political actors, Chidambaram, in a post on X, framed the events of 2019 not merely through a political lens, but as a critical institutional stress test.

"Seven years ago this day, a Constitutional outrage was perpetrated splitting the State of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories. The story did not end there. The question whether a State can be divided and reduced to UTs was raised before the Hon'ble Supreme Court, but the Court decl...