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#Article370 : Government Revokes Grant Of Special Status , Jammu And Kashmir , Ladakh To Be Separate Union Territories
Standing by their 2019 Election promise to remove Article 270 if voted to power the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done just that.
After a crucial cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah in parliament announced that government has decided to revoke Article 370.
HM Amit Shah: Jammu and Kashmir to be a union territory with legislature and Ladakh to be union territory without legislature pic.twitter.com/nsEL5Lr15h
— ANI (@ANI) August 5, 2019
Shah moved a resolution revoking Article 370 from J&K in the Rajya Sabha. He told the Upper House: I am ready for all discussions by the leader of the Opposition, the entire opposition and the members of the ruling party over Kashmir issue. I am ready to answer all questions.
The government has also decided to bifurcate the state into two Union territories – Jammu and Kashmir, which will have a legislature, and Ladakh, which will be without a legislature.
The order was signed by the President Ram Nath Kovind
Constitution(application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order 2019 pic.twitter.com/ueZWl8VU59
— ANI (@ANI) August 5, 2019