Summary:
Exactly a year ago, the Narendra Modi government brought two resolutions related to Jammu and Kashmir.
The first rendered Article 370 inoperative in Jammu and Kashmir by applying the power granted under the same Article of the Constitution.
The second resolution was for bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
This fulfilled a long-cherished 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.
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New Delhi: Exactly a year ago, the Narendra Modi government brought two resolutions related to Jammu and Kashmir.
The first rendered Article 370 inoperative in Jammu and Kashmir by applying the power granted under the same Article of the Constitution.
The second resolution was for bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
This fulfilled a long-cherished 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.
Interestingly, Article 370 describes itself as a temporary provision in relation to Jammu and Kashmir but it continued for almost 70 years until Union Home Minister Amit Shah brought resolutions in Parliament on August 5 last year.
The special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and its reorganisation came into effect on October 31.
Article 370 of the Constitution was in operation in Jammu and Kashmir through the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954.