KPC demands abrogation of Art 370

 

 

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JAMMU: Kashmiri Pandit Conference (KPC) on Wednesday demanded abrogation of Article 370.

 

In a Memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and Governor N.N Vohra, KPC Chief Kundan Kashmiri said that abrogation of Article 370 is the need of the time.

 

Kundan said that Article 370 was brought in force temporarily in the State of J and K, therefore, the so- called special status of Jammu and Kashmir was also temporary. “It was never meant to be permanent as understood by the forces who want to take the State out of the political and constitutional ambit of India”, he added.

 

He further said that the analysis of the Article 370 has been based more on rhetoric and less on the actual nature of this Article.

 

He informed that the provisions  incorporated  in the  Article 370  that empower  the President  of India  to transfer  powers to union  with regard to such subjects  in the union list  and the concurrent list  of the 7th Schedule  of the Indian Constitution  which the President specifies  with   concurrence  of the State Government and extend to the State with  such modifications and expectations  as the President of India  would specify. “It is, therefore, clear that there is nothing    that makes the Article 370 sacrosanct. The in-depth perusal of Article 370 clearly shows that there are no limitations in terms of its amendment. Thus, there is no hurdle in abrogating Article 370, if the Indian Parliament so desires”, he affirmed.

 

“The wrong interpretation of the Article as the guarantor of the State   is a falsification of the constitutional reality. This canard helped Muslims, separatists and so-called secular leaders of J and K State to argue that the special status was given to maintain the State’s Muslim majority character. These wrong interpretations of Article 370 have created many fault lines that the nation is facing at present. Kashmiri separatists and so-called main stream  political parties in the valley  are using  Article 370  as a tool of propaganda for their  communal  agenda  and subjecting  non- Muslim minorities  in to servitude  of the communal politics”, he maintained.

“It is responsibility of Government of India, nationalist forces as well as constitutional experts to interpret this temporary Article 370 in the right perspective and the scene  it was actually framed”, he demanded.

 

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