Lieutenant General Singh also met and interacted with troops deployed on the forward posts and complimented them for their dedication and tenacity in these challenging conditions, officials said.
Dujarric was responding to a question on whether the Secretary-General has any comment on India's decision to revoke Kashmir's special status and the Pakistani's response that this is a violation of UNSC resolutions calling for a UN-organised plebiscite.
Maintaining its stand, Andhra Pradesh, post the bifurcation, lost a large part of its revenue due to Hyderabad being named as the capital of Telangana and remained as a residual state. The then prime minister, Manmohan Singh, during the debate in the Rajya Sabha on the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act on February 20, 2014, promised that special status would be "extended to the successor state of Andhra Pradesh for a period of five years to put the state into the firm footing."
The scrapping of Article 370 had been BJP-led government's electoral promise for 2014 as well as 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The government has not only abolished Article 370 but it also moved a separate bill in the Rajya Sabha to bifurcate the state into two separate Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, simultaneously.
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) member Shehla Rashid, who is a member of former IAS officer Shah Faesal's political outfit Jammu and Kashmir Peoples' Movement (JKPM), took to her twitter handle to post, "We will challenge the order passed today in the Supreme Court. The move to replace "Government" by "Governor" and Constituent Assembly by "Legislative Assembly" is a fraud upon the Constitution. Appeal to progressive forces for solidarity. Protests today in Delhi and Bangalore."
Indian government's move of abolishing Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir and its bifurcation, is receiving tremendous responses not only from India but also across the border. Pakistan government on Monday strongly rejected the Indian Government's decision of withdrawing special status to Jammu and Kashmir. It vowed to exercise all possible options, including appealing to the UN, to counter India's "illegal" and "unilateral" step.
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