The Modi-led government on August 5, 2019, abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution which provided special status to Jammu and Kashmir within the Indian Union and bifurcated the erstwhile state into two union territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir.
The Union Minister also charged the Congress and JMM of spreading lies that the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will claim tribal rights making it clear that the saffron party will put tribals out of its ambit.
During recent rallies in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah firmly dismissed the possibility of restoring Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
The development comes as uproar continued in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for the third day on Friday as BJP members protested over the special status resolution, leading the Speaker to marshal out 12 opposition MLAs and Langate legislator Sheikh Khurshid.
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The speaker ordered the marshals to remove those members who were seen crossing their limits and asked the opposition leaders to behave properly.
What happened today in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly raises many questions...this is also because for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir a Chief Minister took oath under the Constitution. Before this, there was no tradition of taking oath on the Constitution of India in Jammu and Kashmir.
The latest ruckus comes a day after the assembly passed a resolution for the restoration of Article 370. The BJP MLAs had torn the resolution copy and protested in the well after which the assembly was adjourned.
The National Conference did not attend the event, nor did People's Conference leader Sajad Gani Lone and CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami. They refuse to accept Jammu and Kashmir's UT status and want restoration of statehood at the earliest.
Jammu and Kashmir CM-designate Omar Abdullah said, "I came as a grandson just to place flowers on the grave of my grandfather and grandmother.Watch to know more!
His party failed to make a mark in the assembly polls compared to the Lok Sabha elections. When asked whether he lost voters' support, Engineer Rashid said there was nothing like that, and a fake narrative was set against him during the polls.
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah urged the newly elected government in Jammu and Kashmir to foster a "sense of belonging" among the people.
The activist who led the struggle for over 15 years to secure citizenship rights said that the day is no less than a festival as they got to vote after two generations getting disenfranchised.
One may ask why PM Modi raised the Pakistan-Congress connection issue. It is not that he wants to give importance to Pakistan in Kashmir elections, but he wants to expose the Congress on the issue of Article 370.
Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif on Thursday said that the agenda of Congress and National Conference regarding Jammu Kashmir is the same agenda of Pakistan. A political debate later erupted that Congress, National Conference and Pakistan are on the same page on the issue of Jammu Kashmir.
Amit Shah said the remarks made by Pakistan's defence minister Khawaja Asif on Article 370 had exposed Congress and accused the party of sharing the same agenda as Islamabad. The National Conference has openly called for the restoration of Article 370 while the Congress has remained silent.
Pakistan's defence minister Khawaja Asif said the Congress-NC had made Article 370 an election issue and the Shehbaz Sharif government supported its stance. This show of support prompted a furious response from the BJP, which accused Congress of acting inimically to India's interests.
Pakistan has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with other leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), to the Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting scheduled for October this year.
Amit Shah's comments came as Jammu and Kashmir's two principal regional parties -- the National Conference and the PDP -- promised in their election manifestoes for upcoming assembly polls that they would work to restore the controversial provision, scrapped on August 5, 2019.
On India's 78th Independence Day, a video from Srinagar's Lal Chowk, showing a young man waving the Indian flag and chanting patriotic slogans, has gone viral, symbolising the region's transformation since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.
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