A salute to "ModiShah Gathbandhan"
At last the Govt of the Day dared to call off the political bluff of the CONGRESS that kept the State of Jammu and Kashmir perennially under fear of militancy for past 70 years. Yes, PM Modi and his Govt today scrapped Article 370 and Article 35A through passing a legislation on the floor of the Parliament. This also scrapes the stand alone Constitution for "Kashmir" Beginning today the Constitution of India will be equally applicable to all States and Union territories from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. India thus becomes today a country of one "Nation" one "Constitution" and that too both in letter and spirit.
Kashmir is a State that remained fuming under the tunnel of insurgency and now gets the opportunity to walk up to the end of the tunnel and spot the light of hope. A hope perhaps moving forward will make all the difference to the people and the State.
Scrapping Article 370 and Article 35A is I feel will not amount to any breach of Constitutional power of the Govt neither I think it will violate any international treaty viz the UN. So constitutionally speaking now the State of J&K will come on the same page with the rest of the Nation. Of course now Kashmir and Jammu together becomes an UT like Delhi and Ladakh a UT like Daman and Diu. At last now every Indian citizen will have the right to move around and settle in any part of the Indian territory and that now includes Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh
By the way with 15th of August just a week ahead will it be too much of a wishful thinking to say that PM Modi may address the Nation this Independence Day from "Lal Chowk" and not "Red Fort"
But then you never can predict a "ModiShah GhatBandhan" !
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