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| Now, Cong demands Art 371 for J&K | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 16: As the Supreme Court endorsed the decision of the BJP-led NDA government to abrogate articles 370 and 35-A, the Congress now demanded Article 371 for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir like some other states. A political resolution passed in the executive committee meeting of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee party admitted that some concessions were given to J&K under Article 370.
However, instead of supporting Article 370, the party demanded Article 371 for the J&K like some other parts of the country. While highlighting the roles of party leaders including first Prime Minister J L Nehru in the integration of Jammu and Kashmir with the Union of India and in recognizing the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir in the Constitution of India, extending certain guarantees in the shape of Article 370, in view of the special circumstances and the peculiar situations in which J&K acceded to India, rejecting the two-nation theory of Pakistan, on the basis of a theocratic State, despite being an overwhelmingly, the only Muslim majority State bordering Pakistan.
“The BJP government in furtherance of their political agenda has unilaterally removed those guarantees and downgraded and divided the status of the historical State into UTs whereby the people have lost their identity and rights to land and jobs and natural resources. The Hon’ble Apex Court has upheld the constitutionality of the government action”, the resulition passed by the party reads.
“In a democracy, the only course available to the people is to seek certain protections to their lands, jobs, natural resources, status, cultural and linguistic identities and their regional and sub-regional aspirations under the constitution, as guaranteed in the constitution by way of certain provisions like Article 371 to several other states including North-Eastern States, as well as, few other states in the country also”, party demanded.
The Jammu and Kashmir Congress assures the people of Jammu and Kashmir to work with the national leadership of the party for taking on board other like-minded parties in the country to come out with the mechanism to fight for the constitutional safeguards for the protection of people’s rights to lands and jobs as well as resources and other cultural and linguistic identities and other regional sub-regional aspirations and diversities of the people of J&K. |
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