PDP MLA Waheed Para shows a transcript of the solution connected Articles 370 and 35A, demanding its restoration, during the J&K Assembly league connected Thursday. (PTI)
A time aft the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly passed a resolution moved by the Omar Abdullah authorities seeking dialog for restoration of J&K’s peculiar status, 5 non-BJP Opposition MLAs submitted a solution to the Speaker that “unequivocally” rejected the decisions of August 5, 2019.
Unlike Wednesday erstwhile astir of the non-BJP Opposition parties supported the authorities resolution, with riders, the MLAs attacked the ruling National Conference (NC), hinting that it had an knowing with the Centre.
The 5 legislators – People’s Conference’s Sajad Lone, Peoples Democratic Party’s Waheed Para and Fayaz Mir, and Independent MLAs Sheikh Khursheed Ahmad and Shabir Ahmad Kullay – said their ‘People’s Resolution’, which mentioned the contentious Articles 370 and 35 A, stemmed from nationalist choler implicit the 1 moved by the Omar government.
The solution submitted by them to Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather said: “This House powerfully condemns the unconstitutional and unilateral abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35A, on with the enactment of the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, by the Government of India. These actions stripped Jammu & Kashmir of its peculiar presumption and statehood, undermining the foundational guarantees and protections primitively accorded to the portion and its radical by the Constitution of India.”
It added: “This House unequivocally demands the contiguous restoration of Article 370 and Article 35A successful their original, unaltered form, and calls for the reversal of each changes introduced by the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. We further impulse the Government of India to respect the law and antiauthoritarian sanctity of Jammu & Kashmir by reinstating each peculiar provisions and guarantees intended to sphere its chiseled identity, culture, and governmental autonomy.”
The MLAs said they would invited it if the NC brought a solution similar theirs oregon supported it.
“We don’t privation to criticise, we supported them (the NC) erstwhile they brought the solution (on Wednesday), but it is simply a anemic resolution… It is humiliation of the radical of Jammu and Kashmir, betrayal of them… a medley of words, thing else,” Lone said, addressing the property aft the House adjourned for the day.
The adjournment instantly followed the submission of the solution by the 5 MLAs, with proceedings interrupted owed to slogans and counter-slogans by the BJP and NC.
Lone said the adjournment seemed “a fixed match” betwixt the BJP and NC. “First the BJP shouts. When they stop, the NC starts shouting,” helium said, adding that the program seemed to beryllium to stall their resolution. “Either they enactment america oregon they bring this solution and we volition enactment it. Or fto them archer america what is the quality betwixt their solution and our resolution. If they enactment this (new resolution), I volition apologise, but if they don’t, I volition telephone it a fixed match.”
The PDP’s Para, who had separately moved a solution Monday seeking peculiar status, besides attacked the NC, saying: “From 1947 till now, whenever the Centre has snatched our powers and needed to normalise the concern – whether it was peculiar status, oregon downgrading the Prime Minister (Wazir-e-Azam) to Chief Minister – the NC has done it for them… They said that the archetypal concern (of the House) would beryllium a solution connected 370, but they brought a solution connected statehood. That was not the volition of the people… They are present normalising a humanities betrayal.”
Lone, Para and Ahmad urged the radical to “come connected societal media to endorse” their caller resolution.