India, June 28 -- Chief Justice of India B R Gavai on Saturday declared that Article 370 was fundamentally opposed to Dr B R Ambedkar's vision of a single Constitution binding the country together, asserting that Ambedkar never supported the idea of separate constitutions for individual states.

Speaking at the inauguration of the Constitution Preamble Park, CJI Gavai said the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the abrogation of Article 370 drew directly from Ambedkar's commitment to unity through one Constitution. Gavai served on the five-judge Constitution bench, led by then Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, that unanimously upheld the Centre's 2019 decision to revoke Article 370, which had granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

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