J&K Legislative Assembly passes resolution seeking special status for UT

In Jammu and Kashmir, the Legislative Assembly yesterday passed a resolution seeking special status and constitutional guarantees for the Union Territory.

As the house assembled this morning, the deputy Chief Minister, Surinder Kumar Choudhary, moved a resolution that seeks to reaffirm the importance of the special status and constitutional guarantees, which, as per the resolution, safeguarded the identity, culture and rights of J&K.

The resolution seeks the assembly to call upon the Central Government to initiate dialogue with elected representatives of people of Jammu and Kashmir for restoration of special status constitutional guarantees and to workout



constitutional mechanisms for restoring these provisions.

As soon as the resolution was brought up in the assembly, the opposition led by BJP’s Sunil Sharma started to protest saying that the resolution wasn’t the part of the business. Amid the ruckus, the speaker put the resolution to voice vote and the house passed it. As the pandemonium continued, the speaker adjourned the House for the day.

Articles 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir was abrogated by the Parliament on August 5, 2019, and the power of the Parliament to do so was upheld by a Constitutional bench of the Supreme Court.