Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Need to scrap Article 370 from the Indian Constitution
In the past 55 years, Pakistan India Pakistan India Pakistan India Jammu and Kashmir Kashmir by violent means. Pak trained militants have made the state of J&K a battleground. Extortion, rape and terrorism are continuing unabated even today. For example, on July 29th, 2005 , in a pre dawn strike, militants killed five Hindus by slitting their throats after dragging them out of their hutments in a hamlet in Rajouri district of J&K. Every effort to bring back normalcy is being sabotaged. On July 22, 2005 , four Pak based militant groups warned the Kashmiri migrants against their attempt to come back to the valley. They insisted that moderate faction of the Hurriyat can’t protect the Hindus. Even goodwill gestures of spiritual leaders are not being reciprocated. On Jun 28, 2005 , Sri. Sri. Ravishankar went to Kashmir with the message of love and peace. Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani asked himto preach peace lessons to Indian Govt.
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Under Article 370, except for Defense, Foreign Affairs and Communications, the Indian Parliament requires the State Government's concurrence for applying such laws toJammu and Kashmir India India
Article 370 has provisions for its modifications. The President may by public notification, declare that this article shall cease to be operative, with the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of the State. But the Constituent Assembly mentioned above was dissolved in 1957 and the clause is not operational. So, in essence, the parliament or the president has the power to modify the article 370. But, today, no political party is including abrogation of Article 370 in its agenda. Moreover, Congress says article 370 is our “solemn commitment’” to the people of J & K. Today’s polity is completely ignorant that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wanted the removal of the article at the earliest. Political parties are not realizing their role in solving the J&K problem. A strange notion is created among the people that this article is pro-Muslim and it is used to secure their block vote though article 370 offers absolutely nothing to the millions of Muslims of India, including those inJammu and Kashmir
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Under Article 370, except for Defense, Foreign Affairs and Communications, the Indian Parliament requires the State Government's concurrence for applying such laws to
Article 370 has provisions for its modifications. The President may by public notification, declare that this article shall cease to be operative, with the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of the State. But the Constituent Assembly mentioned above was dissolved in 1957 and the clause is not operational. So, in essence, the parliament or the president has the power to modify the article 370. But, today, no political party is including abrogation of Article 370 in its agenda. Moreover, Congress says article 370 is our “solemn commitment’” to the people of J & K. Today’s polity is completely ignorant that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wanted the removal of the article at the earliest. Political parties are not realizing their role in solving the J&K problem. A strange notion is created among the people that this article is pro-Muslim and it is used to secure their block vote though article 370 offers absolutely nothing to the millions of Muslims of India, including those in
