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| Demand for abrogation of Article 370 rattles NC leadership | | Nationalist constituency feeling jubilant | | Rustam
JAMMU, Apr 8: On Monday, the BJP released its national manifesto 2014. It, among other things, talked about the necessity of a debate on Article 370 and reiterated its stand that this Article must go. As expected, the reiteration of the BJP stand on Article 370 evoked a very strong reaction from the National Conference leaders, especially Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah. Both condemned the BJP. Omar Abdullah even went to the extent of saying the abrogation of Article 370 would mean de-accession of the state from India - a spurious argument. Article 370 has nothing to do with the accession business. Article 370 was incorporated in the Indian Constitution two years after 560-odd princely states merged with India.
The reasons behind the attack of the NC on the critics of Article 370 are quite understandable. After all, abrogation of Article 370 means closure of its communal shop and the rise of a situation under which the people of the state would exercise all the rights which are available to all other Indians under the Indian Constitution. It would also mean the emergence of a situation that promotes politics based on sound democratic and economic issues. The NC cannot live without power and, hence, its blistering attack on the critics of Article 370. If the demand for the abrogation of Article 370 has rattled the NC leadership, it has acted as a balm like it acts on a wound. The refugees from West Pakistan, the OBCs, SCs and the minorities felt jubilant because they know that it is this Article that has empowered the NC and similar other outfits to crush them and deny what is due to them. The abrogation of Article 370 for them means many things. It means revocation of Jammu & Kashmir Constitution, grant of citizenship rights to the refugees from West Pakistan, grant of minority status to the communities like Kashmiri Hindus, the Sikhs, in fact, to all the non-Muslims, parity between the Jammu & Kashmir-based OBCs and their counterparts in the rest of the country and grant of rights to the SCs in Jammu province similar to the ones they exercise in the rest of the country.
It's no wonder then that while the demand for the abrogation has evoked a strong reaction from the NC, it has evoked a very positive response from all the social groups which have been suffering since 1949 because of the evil consequences which followed on the application of Article 370 to the state. Indeed, the nationalist constituency wants this Article to go lock, stock and barrel. |
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