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Article 370: How Modi government changed status of Kashmir
9Aug By Stuart WhiteNo Comments
Opinion

Article 370: How Modi government changed status of Kashmir

On August 5, 2019, the Narendra Modi government in the Centre brought two resolutions related to Jammu and Kashmir. The first revoked Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and the second resolution was for bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.This step fulfilled a much-awaited demand of the RSS-BJP, since the days of Bharatiya Jan Sangh, whose leader Syama Prasad Mookerjee died in a Kashmir prison, campaigning against the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.Article 370, combined with Article 35A, accorded Jammu and Kashmir special status under the Constitution of India, allowing it to have a separate constitution and a separate penal code among other legal distinctions.Article 370 is a temporary provision in relation to Jammu ...
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No violence, stone pelting, Pakistan flag since scrapping Article 370: J&K BJP leader
6Aug By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

No violence, stone pelting, Pakistan flag since scrapping Article 370: J&K BJP leader

On the first anniversary of abrogation of Article 370, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Kashmir unit unfurled the national flag at the party office and accused those protesting the constitutional changes of being sympathizers of the ISIS.“We are celebrating the completion of one year of abrogation of Article 370 (provisions) and the positive changes that it brought in Jammu and Kashmir,” BJP leader Altaf Thakur told reporters at the party office in Jawahar Nagar.Thakur said the abrogation of Article 370 provisions of the Constitution, which accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir, had brought about many positive changes and put an end to stone pelting in Kashmir.“There used to be stone pelting during encounters that has stopped. There used to be ISIS flag, Pakistani flag…that has st
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Statehood only after ‘rectifying blunders’ of previous governments: BJP
5Aug By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Statehood only after ‘rectifying blunders’ of previous governments: BJP

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the current ruling political party of India has made it clear that the decision to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) would be taken only “after rectifying the historic blunders committed by successive state governments by abusing Article 370 and 35-A”.“After the abrogation of both Articles, our main focus is to establish a system with accountability and transparency as successive regimes in J&K have brazenly abused these Articles to bulldoze democratic institutions and deprive marginalized sections of their constitutional rights,” J&K president of the BJP, Ravinder Raina said in a statement.Raina said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah had committed that statehood to J&K would be restored after the normaliza
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India’s ruling party plans mega celebrations to mark first anniversary of Article 370 roll back in J&K
30Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

India’s ruling party plans mega celebrations to mark first anniversary of Article 370 roll back in J&K

The current ruling political party of India, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jammu and Kashmir has decided to mark the first anniversary of revocation of Article 370 with mega celebrations from August 5 for 15 days.The party leadership believes that the decision taken last year has helped restore peace in the region, however, the coronavirus pandemic has been a spoilsport as far as the development of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) union territory is concerned.BJP General Secretary Ashok Koul has said that a 15-day long program has been chalked out to celebrate one year of 2019’s August 5 decision - scraping the Article 370 and bifurcating the erstwhile J&K State into two Union Territories (UTs)— Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.“As far as the restoration of peace in the J&K UT is c
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