- , <9 = !%"0!8& #0!8&8 VRGR $"#(!#1')VCEBRS WWT!Pa!RT%&!$"#1$# .4)#).#5 %./0123 &4./'26 =% C @C 7 .9> ? 9D>9 > 7(@ @= > > 7 > = > 7 > 9@> 7E 7 @ @(@ C>@ 997> 7(9 > D> ? D 7 *55 A*, B ! # &&!% !"# $% " & "'" %()*+ ', Q R !" !" #$% &''(& he contentious Article 370 Tis part of the history now. !3-4!% In a predictable move after days & # $ of troop buildup in the %# !356 . Kashmir valley, the Modi ! ! ! Government on Monday 3-4.&! scrapped Article 370 to do ( . away with Jammu & Kashmir’s % special status and also proposed the bifurcation of the State '(.%#&! into two union territories, !&% Jammu & Kashmir, and 0 " Ladakh. 789% By doing so, the BJP-led '( % dispensation hopes to fulfill its poll promise and deal with a triumphant Home protracted militancy move- % ' AMinister Amit Shah on ment that has been ravaging ( L&&&M Monday termed the Modi the State for past three decades. voked outrage from the Shah also moved a Bill and after “normalcy” returns. L!M Government’s landmark deci- Union Home Minister National Conference and the proposing bifurcation of J&K The Government will not allow sion to scrap Article 370 of the Amit Shah announced the PDP, the principal political into two union territories — the situation to turn into anoth- special rights enjoyed by its cit- Indian Constitution that gave decision in the Rajya Sabha, parties in Jammu & Kashmir. Jammu & Kashmir and er battle torn Kosovo, he said. izens on land, business and special status to Jammu & which approved the resolu- According to the resolution Ladakh. The union territory in The Government hopes employment. Kashmir as “historical” saying / 0 ! 1 tion and the Jammu & Kashmir moved by the Home Minister, Ladakh will have no legislature that abrogation of Article 370 As the Government moved it came in the way of integra- .23P Reorganisation Bill. Both will Article 370 ceases to be oper- like Chandigarh. The other that accorded special status to a Bill to convert J&K into a tion of the State into India. 5 ! now come up in the Lok Sabha ative from Monday itself. “The union territory of Jammu & Jammu & Kashmir and the union territory with an While tabling the resolu- on Tuesday. President on the recommen- Kashmir will have a legislature consequential end of Article Assembly and a Lieutenant tion in the Rajya Sabha, Shah a united India. Congratulations Article 370 will be fulfilled. The Government’s effort to dation of Parliament is pleased like Delhi and Puducherry, 35A that defines the permanent Governor and thereby the said Article 370 was intro- to the entire nation. Today, Shah, who received a tackle head-on the vexatious to declare as from 5th of where key subjects like law and residents of the State will help Centre wielding major power duced in the Constitution on Modi Govt has corrected a standing ovation from his 72-year-old problem wrack- August 2019, all clauses of the order are with the Centre. in the integration of the erst- over it, the State has “lost” its October 17, 1949, and almost long overdue historic wrong,” party colleagues when he ing the soul of the nation sent said Article 370 shall cease to Shah said full statehood will while J&K State into the Union privileged status like Assembly 70-year-long provision led to Shah tweeted later congratu- entered the House minutes a wave of jubilation among BJP be operative...,” the resolution be restored to Jammu & of India like any other state or enjoying six-year tenure, out- lack of development, corrup- lating Modi for “his unwaver- before proceedings in the Rajya supporters and others, but pro- stated. Kashmir at “appropriate time” union territories and cease siders not allowed to buy land tion and loot by “three families’ ing commitment towards Sabha commenced, termed and Kashmiri women marry- for so long. ensuring unity and integrity of the move as “historical”. ing outside forfeiting their Shah said decision to abro- our motherland”. In his half an hour reply, )* rights over land in Kashmir. gate Article 370 ensures that The revocation comes Shah highlighted the “monu- # %$ Twenty four seats which there will be no “do nishan, do against the backdrop of Shah mental injustices” of the past fall in the Pakistan-occupied samvidhan” (two flags, two asserting during the election and presented the + Kashmir (PoK) shall remain Constitutions) in Jammu & rallies before the recent Lok Government’s vision for the ,) vacant in new Assembly of J&K Kashmir. “This decision is a Sabha elections that if his people of J&K in the Rajya !# $ &# union territory. tribute to all the patriots who party retains power, the long Sabha in the presence of the PM. Continued on Page 4 made the supreme sacrifice for standing demand for repealing Continued on Page 4 Related reports: P6, 7 over India despite being of the Former Home Minister P same religion because he trust- Chidambaram said, “We antic- akistan Prime Minister he Congress, along with ed in our secular framework. ipated a misadventure, but did PImran Khan on Monday Tsome regional parties, on But, that trust has been bro- not think in our wildest termed India’s move to revoke Monday vehemently opposed ken,” Azad said. dreams that they will take Article 370 of the Constitution the Modi Government’s move “Lakh of people from the such a catastrophic step. Today which gave special status to to abolish the provision of the State, including political party is a black day in the constitu- Jammu & Kashmir as “illegal” Article 370 of the Indian leaders, sacrificed their lives to tional history of India.” and said it will “further deteri- Constitution, terming the deci- uphold the unity of India since Former Law Minister orate” relations between the sion as a “catastrophic step”. then and revoking the Article Kapil Sibal pointed several nuclear-capable neighbours. Registering his protest in is tantamount to ‘murder’ of flaws in the the Jammu & Imran made the remarks the Rajya Sabha, Leader of the Constitution,” said Azad. Kashmir Reorganisation Bill in while speaking separately with Opposition Ghulam Nabi He said the entire Kashmir the current format and said it his Malaysian counterpart Azad said Article 370 was his- valley is under curfew and will fail the test of judiciary if Mahathir Mohamad and torical as people of J&K joined three former Chief Ministers of challenged. Turkish President Recep Tayyip India in 1947 after then the State and political leaders Azad said the Government Erdogan. He said changing the Maharaja Hari Singh signed have been arrested. He want- had on Monday “cut off the status of Kashmir was “illegal the Instrument of Accession. ed the situation to be dis- head of India” and destroyed and a violation of UN resolu- “I say that Maharaja Hari cussed first before the resolu- the history of J&K for votes. tions”. Singh didn’t choose Pakistan tion was moved in Parliament. Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 4 ( wo former Chief Ministers Tof Jammu & Kashmir, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, were arrested within hours after the Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the Bill to bifurcate State into two Union Territories (UTs). According to official sources, first PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti was escorted to the State guest house by the security personnel and later Omar Abdullah was taken into police custody. Early in the day, both these politicians had reacted adverse- ly to the historic move of scrapping of Article 370. Omar in a press statement ! )*+ said, “The Government of , India (GOI)’s unilateral and . ' M N shocking decisions today are a ‘total betrayal of trust’ that the State acceded to it in 1947”. ! "#$ people of Jammu & Kashmir “The decisions will have far %M "#$ N ' had reposed in India when the reaching and dangerous con- sequences. This is an aggres- sion against people of the State as had been warned by all par- !& ties meeting in Srinagar on .% Sunday. A long and tough bat- " tle lies ahead,” he added. "! Mehbooba, Omar !& !&D Abdullah and Sajjad Lone, the three most prominent politi- cians from Jammu and Kashmir, were earlier placed O 000" under house arrest after mid- !"# !!D night on Sunday in an unprece- ! & dented lockdown. % Mehbooba tweeted, “Today && '( %!!! marks the darkest day in Indian & !# ! democracy. Decision of J&K !! % leadership to reject 2 nation *+,- theory in 1947 & align with India has backfired.” Continued on Page 4 !"#$% 7 (4/## ! 7(@ 8 9 howing his displeasure over the functioning of 7(@ 7(@ like other states and Union ter- SUttar Pradesh Rajkiya ritories and instead of holding Nirman Nigam (UPRNN), pprehending arrest, rominent Shia cleric and violent demonstration and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ASamajwadi Party MP from PImam-e-Juma Lucknow, fighting the security forces, warned that it could be black- Rampur, Mohammad Azam Maulana Kalbe Jawwad, has the separatist organisations listed if construction of build- Khan, has moved the court for welcomed the scrapping of should come to the negotiating ings was not completed with- anticipatory bail following a Articles 370 and 35A of the table for amicable settlement of in the stipulated time. battery of 64 cases being filed Constitution and the bifurca- their problems.” He also said that the con- against him by the UP Police tion of Jammu and Kashmir Jawwad added, “negotiated struction of five new medical over the last three months. into two Union territories. settlement” is the only solution colleges should be completed Of these, 28 cases have He appealed to the people of the problem of the people of by October 31. been registered against the of Jammu and Kashmir not to Jammu and Kashmir.