Sr Adv Dushyant Dave: Whichever way your lordships look at this- democracy, federalism, rule of law- each one of them is a basic structure of the Constitution. Every one of those principles are completely thrown out of the window by this.

Dave: There are two powers that are fiercely independent - Constituent power and the derivate power. We have now a third situation where a constitutional power is to be exercised by the President.