Do you think the Narendra Modi government could extend Parliament by another few days to make Mumbai a separate state out of Maharashtra? Or carve Darjeeling out of West Bengal? Or suddenly, make Tamil Nadu a Union Territory? Do you think the government could put all politicians in Odisha under house arrest, cut all communication channels, impose a military lockdown, and suddenly declare it’s a Union Territory?
It was a midnight coup at 11 am. The ensuing darkness is ominous. This could just be the beginning of a long night for the democracy in India. The Modi government will just decide to do whatever it likes to the Constitution, to laws and regions and territories, and people’s lives. And, it will get away with it.
Home Minister Amit Shah declared Monday morning that Article 370 of the Indian Constitution is dead. Article 35A also goes. Ladakh is now a Union Territory without a legislature. The other two regions of the state, Jammu and Kashmir, will now be a Union Territory with a legislature — a bit like Delhi or Puducherry. The new Jammu and Kashmir government will thus be weaker than, say, the government of Goa. They say it’s national integration.
Also read: Explained: This is what Modi govt has done to scrap Article 370, 35A in Jammu & Kashmir
The ‘stakeholders’ be damned
In the days and months to come, there will be a lot of discussion on the legality of this move. Challenges in the Supreme Court are inevitable. There will be a lot of politics and polarisation. India will be divided between those supporting and those opposing the move. But the most urgent issue is the manner in which this has been done, and the timing of it.
The BJP’s 2014 Lok Sabha election manifesto had said, “BJP reiterates its stand on the Article 370, and will discuss this with all stakeholders and remains committed to the abrogation of this article.” Re-iterating this promise in its 2019 manifesto, it removed the bit about holding discussion with the stakeholders.
The government notification says it is being issued in “concurrence with the government of Jammu & Kashmir.” That’s a joke, because the state has been under President’s rule. The assembly election there has been due for a while. The Election Commission did not hold it along with the Lok Sabha election for ‘security’ reasons. If they could put one EVM in the polling booth, why couldn’t they put two? Clearly, the Modi regime didn’t want an elected government in Jammu and Kashmir. It gets worse when you consider that governor Satyapal Malik has said on record that no constitutional change was on the cards, and if there was, he didn’t know.
Radical changes in a democracy must come through debate, discussion and dissent, which will lead to consensus. The Modi government should have tabled the bill at the beginning of the session, made it public that this is what it wants to do, listened to all voices, and then moved ahead with its plan – even if it didn’t agree with the naysayers.
Instead, the government decides to put former chief ministers under house arrest. These are the same Kashmiri politicians who stand up for India and take oath under the Indian Constitution. But the Modi government is changing the very idea of India, from unity in diversity to brute majoritarianism and authoritarianism.
In the 2014 Jammu and Kashmir election, the BJP had similarly put the abrogation of Article 370 in its manifesto. A BJP candidate in Srinagar, Hina Bhat, had then said: “If the Article is touched, it will force Kashmiris to pick up guns again. And you know I am a Kashmiri too.” When a PDP MP tears apart a copy of the Constitution of India in the Rajya Sabha, you know why consensus is a good word in democracy. It appears that we are no longer a democracy. Sanjay Gandhi would have approved.
If you are cheering this, do remember: you don’t know what the Modi government will change overnight and how it will affect you.
Also read: Security forces on full alert in Jammu and Kashmir, Army on standby
Curious timing
What is also curious is the timing of the move. Why could this not have been done before or after the Amarnath Yatra? The claim that the Amarnath Yatra was suspended because of a ‘terror threat’ now appears thin. It was obviously suspended as step one of a plan to put all of Kashmir Valley and parts of Jammu in a state of lockdown – no news, no phone, no internet, no right to assembly. Just stay at home, there’s no advance warning. In fact, the J&K governor and the Modi government were telling people not to panic. Those who took this advice seriously might now be worrying about stocking up on food. The curfews won’t go away soon.
The timing of the move is clearly to shift the headlines away from the economy. Kashmir, Kashmir, Kashmir will be what we will talk about for many weeks to come. The Modi government will not have to answer any tough questions about the economy anymore. Did demonetisation lead to the slowdown? Is the GST still a mess? What is the government doing to arrest the shutting down of car manufacturing units that’s leading to massive job losses? The answer to all your questions about the economy is Kashmir.
It’s not that simple. The economy will worsen. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. The Modi government will need more to deflect attention. What’s next? Ram Mandir? National Register of Citizens across India? Political dissenters declared terrorists under the amended UAPA law?
Be afraid, very afraid.
Views are personal.
Why to much ado for nothing. The Constitutional Guarantee and rights are not sacred one. It is an acceptable principal of a dynamic and vibrant society. The Supreme Court it self underlined this fact many a time. In famous privi purse case, Madhav Rao Scindia v/s Union of India, (Jyotiraditya Scindia support is understandable) at time of independence, when the 58 carore per anum privi purse free of income tax is promised and imshrinned in article 292, the same was abolished. Eminent lawyer Late Nani Bhai Palkiwala has same argument but privi purse has to go. So is the Right of Property, a fundamental right. However debate has to be taken place. Not for scoring points or menifesto justifications. One day special rights still part of
Our sublime Connstitution in Article 371 A should made way for an equal rights amongst States of India and union territories. A controversy settled.
In fact, PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are emerged out to correct the wounds created by Congress Government given to Mother India through various means especially to J&K by way of Article 370 and 35A, which yielded lot of signs and symptoms like ousting of hindu Kasmiri Brahamins, mushrooming of militency and terrorism through neighbouring country. This badly affected to the innocent and helpless local people relating deprived of education and other necessary benefits. The corruption was enhanced there due to some politicians and seaparists. Moreover, the neigbouring country also making sleepless nights of people who living near LOC due to persistent shellings on them. So the decision taken by the present government is welcomed by majority of the people of India. Hopefully, time and government intervention may be able to take confidence of people of valley with through various initiatives for welfare of them amd the UT. Jai Hind.
Really great views of this unnecessary/terrible change.
If it’s for the people, it should be by the people not only by BJP.
People were disconnected from the entire world. State govt was made disfunctionary. Governor was keep on telling a lie that it’s just a prevention act for terror attack .Is this really a democratic way of declaring a good solution? Can anyone of the above point where democracy is followed here?
In a democratic country, a citizen is given power to elect the leader at the age of 18. Here, Nothing is discussed with people or representatives to know their concerns atleast. Government is for the people. Not only to rule the people. Everytime citizens are losers. Govt takes so many decisions and overnight orders. Not even such single overnight surprises given benefit. We are not toys to play with or rats to experiment. Its life of every people. You can’t just do trial and errors.That why we have a process to evaluate everything. If it’s really good for people,govt should be transparent and should have ears to listen people’s voice. Any human being,if he or she is doing good work, they will never do it in hurry. Tension will prevail only when he/she is not doing good or not sure about what they are doing. Even independence is not obtained in a single day.
Mr. Journalist u lost your mental balance creating confusion among people, channeling tukde tukde gang propaganda
Very poor journalism. Have you ever been to J&K? Do you know the ground realities there Mr. Journalist? At least visit that place once, and then you will understand how under developed that place is. Hospitals/ schools/ colleges are sub-standard or doesn’t exist at all. While the people who ruled there, could afford sending their children abroad, the commoners continue to live in backwardness. Do you know the genesis of Article 370. Read it properly before writing such articles.
There is nothing to be afraid of. You are misleading the readers. Mr. Author. Everything will settle down soon and for the wellbeing of the Indian nation.
Wow… thats a late reaction. Democracy died when Modi government came and they made people stand in long ATM queues, or link aadhaar card to their bank accounts, or stand for national anthem in theatres. We are already in a dictatorship in case you didnt know.
Barkhurdar, you are too young to recall the long ques for ration, kerosene, cement, sugar and other things. How much money did you have at home before demobilization? A million or ten. Because ordinary people do not carry that much of cash at home. The labour which worked for me accepted money from me through NEFT. They did not wail like widows or opposition leaders. What ever cash I had I simply went and deposited in my account. No line, no question either from bank or ITO. It seems the argument of yours and your brothers are against this government and your bloody defeat.
U must be very young?I have been to been to Srinagar back in 2001 and my wife was very afraid even going onto Dal lake.Their tension because terrorists in the valley.There were no tourists to bring any income to fund local businesses.Islam teaches that All of us who are not Muslims are Kafirs and must be destroyed?Kashmir will remain as a state within India with freedom to believe and practice your own religion when Pakistan does not allow you.Finally All people of Kashmir will be free.
Strange when Mr Vij writing against failed Congress, the readers showered all praise. Now he is critical the of scrap 370 was scraped, all are pouncing on author who has called spade for spade. It is a clear political move, nothing else. People who have commented here should first read Integration of Indian States by VP Menon to first how India was Integrated in whole Chapter on Kashmir.
this writer is a part of Tukde Tukde gang. Frustrated SIc
By asking the citizens to be afraid, and spreading lies Mr Author you are just trying to divide the country. With this law Kashmir will be a part of India and enjoy the development that has long eluded it. The armed forces there and the curfew is not to harm the Kashmiris but to protect them from any unrest/ terrorist attack that might happen during the change. Our prayers are definitely with them and our soldiers that no terrorist attack is brought upon them. Don’t spread nonsense and stop portraying GOI as a killer govt. It is not.
Master piece..very well written… Enjoyed every bit of it…
Lol. Hurriyat and terrorist sympathisers. When will you realize you boat has sunk and literally no one in the country cares for your biased corrupt opinion?
This website is one among the terrorist sympathizers, what more can expect from you..? U have your fellow webs like scroll and few others doing the same job.. it is we, readers have to be careful of not to give at least a single click on your articles.
Dude are u even reading before posting this article??? Sometimes I feel print is run out of Pakistan…u can hate a leader but u can’t start hating ur own motherland to show ur hatred towards the PM… please don’t let journalism stoop to such a level..
Where is the respect for democracy in this country? Holding elections and winning the same by stoking atavistic passions while murdering the Constitution is not the hallmark of a functioning democracy. Where was the consultative process and debate? The main stakeholders, the Kashmiris are under curfew. You had a union minister Jitendra Singh saying Kashmiris were celebrating. Is he living in an alternate universe? This is not the first big decision to be taken arbitrarily either.
There was talk of investment flowing to Kashmir now. Investment and businesses thrive in areas where there is peace, respect for rule of law and no tax terrorism. We see what is happening, right?
All that the BJP cares about is winning elections. Is there any respect for individual rights, justice and rule of law in this country?
Stakeholders? Open you bloody eyes and stop being such a chela of congress and Hurriyat. These people have robbed from the country and their own state people, kept them dirt poor despite having enormous sums of money invested in the state, the people have no jobs, they sit around listening to Saudi and paki maulvis who need them to pelt stones while their own kids study in Oxford. All the money your bloody STAKEHOLDERS had was going into TERRORISM.
Itna hi pyar hai terrorists ke liye, kindly go join them. Our army will gladly hunt you and this author down.
Also, know something about the ground reality. Only 5 Sunni wahabi districts are in shock, and they should be. They were fighting for a bloody Islamic caliphate. Do you want your very own next door ISIS? Would that perhaps make you believe in democracy?
The shias, ahmedine, people from Jammu are all celebrating.
The BJP has done what needed to be done and has fixed the shit storm that syphilitic bastard nehru and his progeny created. And that is what the country wanted.
Just cause you lost money in demonization, doesn’t mean you have to be anti everything the BJP does.
Too much democracy , too much vdebate is harmful. We have been in debate for last 70 yrs. And therefore training behind China.
Atvend of every debate is outcome and that has taken place. Govt need to take holistic view and not regional view. And election mandate empower Govt to for it.
To become intellectual doest means to oppose every thing one bed to think rationally.
I am amazed where were these intellectual s when Kashmir I pandits were massacred.
Do not try to create diff within Indian. We want kashmiri’s to be Indian as we are.
I would taken this author seriously if had written a single article in the past praising modi government
Please learn from mr.shekar Gupta how to be a good and objective journalist
Well written and highlighted. It could have been done more swiftly rather than slapping it in the face of people
This is article is completely spot-on. It is remarkable that the veil of ignorance hangs so thick on us, as evident from the comments, that one is unable to see through the haze. Neither the act nor the way it was carried out behoove a democratic nation. If it could happen to Kashmir and Kashmiris today it can happen to any other state and any other individual tomorrow. Our constitutional safeguards and civil liberties are clearly in peril.
It cannot, because other states are not under the purview of a temporary provision in the constitution. But please don’t let facts interfere with your propaganda. After all, it has worked wonders so far hasn’t it?
@Ramanujam is fear mongering.
If he can oppose this move, he can oppose any rational move by any sensible government.
So say people who sell their votes for a mixer grinder or a goat ! Others did not do it even for 72000!
It cannot – read the constitution
When Sardar Patel was famously engaged in taking various princely states on board India, he didn’t discuss the issue with anyone outside his own umbrella – sometimes not even with Nehru. And today all of us are proud of what he did for a strong India. Had the author been there he would have questioned the intent of Sardar Patel too!
Discussions and dissents are really the pillers of democracy but the spirit of democracy is more important than it’s letter. The late Shaikh Abdulla was arrested and put in jail for years together – why and for what?
The author, in principle, is correct to accuse the govt of taking such a huge decision without taking any stakeholder on board – but let us ponder over as to what might have happened had Modi govt started efforts of taking the stakeholders on board, especially from J & K. No body would have agreed and the author is correct that still the govt would have very well moved on and had its way! But there were dangerous apprehensions too – what if violence would have erupted? What if these stakeholders incited and misguided the local people? What if they had given it a communal colour? And most importantly what if doors of Pakistan knocked and the things internationalised? Have we not been in a situation of turmoil and chaos and just accusing the Modi govt of mishandling the situation and creating a mess out of it? And as consequence of all this we would not have been even able to think of doing this for years together.
Let’s not stretch the Democratic ethos too far to the extent of creating a chaotic situation where the entire situation go out of our control and most importantly, LET US NOT CREATE PANIC AND FRIGHTEN our people unnecessary.
J & K had become a ground of sowing the seeds of all sorts of vested interests – politically it had become merely a region to be ruled by few families in turn, economically it has become a centre of all vested interests to make huge money in name of Political instability and insecurities and most dangerously a continuous narrative for Pakistan engaging in seamless terrorism. And with all this the common public of the state and become captive – captive of miscommunication, captive of being away from the mainstream, captive of illiteracy and poverty and captive of being driven towards hatred for everything and everyone. All this is what the Kashmiri people had got out of the ‘special status’ granted to the state.
And just see the after effects – the govt had not taken anyone on board. But most of the parties across all spectrum have supported, precisely barring Congress, TMC and DMK. Of course, within NDA JD (U) has opposed but that have a different story altogether. How this huge support has come along without taking them on board. Even a Congress Whip in Rajya Sabha has reportedly resigned on the issue.
Detention of J&K leaders is understandable and obvious. And all this situation is definitely not going to continue for long. The leaders would be released, communication restored and security eased. Ultimately, the govt has to go back to the public and seek mandate.
The author is absolutely not correct to say that all this is done to deviate our attention from so-called sad state of economy – not at all. The govt remains to be judged on economic front too. But strong political decisions too are required for the country. The BJP had promised it time and again and it had to do it sooner than later. And after all, some govt had to have courage and will to go beyond to do certain historical things – may be debatable but eventually in larger interest of the country.
The analogy of comparing it with other states is misplaced. J&K had been unique and an unique decision was required – as precise as that.
But yes, the govt has moved to a very sensitive area. The J&K public is at the centre. The public at large have to be taken on board. They have to be properly educated about the intent and spirit of the decision and growth and progress must start immediately. The strong measures for education, employment and poverty elliviation must commence at once. Since they are supposed to Union territories, it is hoped that things would go fast and progress escalated. The J&K as well as Laddakh have all the potential of becoming world class places. The political class, especially the parties other than NDA who support the move, may be roped in for active co operation for progress and growth of the state.
It is nice that the international community is reportedly briefed and taken into confidence. That will definitely take care of sealing Pakistan narrative of the issue.
The decision is in favour of the country – the country that includes J&K very well. There is One India with One public now and the World at large should feel that it is a strong India with a strong Govt.
By the same logic, this author must also call Sardar Patel as a zealous and authoritative administrator since he worked beyond the constitution to create an integrated India. Had J&K not shared a border with Pakistan, it would have integrated into the Union of India a long time back. Scaremongering seems to be the mantra the media and news industry live by.
However I absolutely do not support the clampdown in J&K. I hope its temporary and is lifted to have life back to normal as soon as possible. Internal wars of attrition have no end and will only hurt the country long term.
The author is seemingly a kid, who has least understanding of Art. 370
From his days in HuffPost, I have been seeing his articles, or rather, anti-Modi rants, go down below. But it is a joy to see commies burn.
Only a simpleton like this writer does not know the reason for the security forces took control of J&K before tabling the bill in the parliament. Please don’t pretend as if the nation is at standstill or down the hill. What the so called the special status brought to Kashmir or for that matter to India? The same thing could be got by abrogating those useless articles.
Not a fan of Shivam Vij’s writing. But the author got a point. This is a clear attempt to distract the discourse from being a total disaster when it comes to economics. We just fell from the 4th to the 7th position globally under this regime which promised ache din and make in India. joblessness is rampant. Lending has gone down. Liquidity in the market is down. These are the real concerns. An average Indian citizen doesn’t give 2 cents about Kashmir. This issue has been flared up to distract the population. Governments statistics show that the past 5 years have seen an unprecedented number of casualties in Kashmir. Hope this brings some change to the life of the average Kashmiri than being yet another political stunt like demonetisation. Which only brought grief to the people.
Obnoxious when pundits were being thrown out and massacred were you cheering the mobs Pundit Nehru must have been crying in his grave
what a piece of crap! At least once try to appreciate positive things happening in India. Ask your own conscience dude leaving aside all your hatred. Don’t know who those fools are who publish your articles!!
The current government had wise men who are taking decisions for the good of the country. However, with age this present leadership will naturally go. The decision to blindside the public and the parliament sets a bad precedent which can be used by a malicious future government to bring in legislation without notice and without debate. Everyone supports the decision. Even a few days notice would have allowed Parliament to consider the issue and there may have been a few disapproving voices but it would have passed. disturbances in Kashmir the forces are more than capable of dealing with. international pressure if at all any would not have interfered with parliaments power to pass the resolution There is no need to have a parliament if you are not going to discuss laws. This will be a bad example for future governments which may not be as nationalistic and patriotic as the present one
Certainly Modi-Shah duo are risk takers who are willing to take bold decisions. Whether this will be a success or a disaster like Demonetisation, only time will tell.
the timing is suspect, but whether it is to divert the attention of the public from the economic issues daunting the government i am not so sure. so long as the effect of abolition of art 370 is confined to JnK and the bordering states it may continue to have the same effect on financial health of the nation as is seen at present. but if has wider repercussions elsewhere in the country!!!
What an idiot. How the print allows such drivel?
Comments section writers do a better job.
The idiot here is you and the 37% others who voted these idiots to power. The ruling idiots are destroying the Indian democracy and the idiot bhakts like you are cheering the destruction of Indian democracy. The idiots have reduced Indian democracy to a banana republic.
What an utter piece of filth you are. Only a fool like yourself can have such views. Get your head out of your ass for once and see the writing on the wall, if you have eyes that are capable of seeing the truth that is. From your drivel it seems unlikely you have anything in yourself that is worthy of being called a brain but please do try to access it once in a while. If not, I have a place in mind where you can shove your opinions, and, if you’re so kind, yourself. Idiotic slave.
This is this mentality of the opposition that has made them irrelevant. Without understanding the democratic electoral process followed, you are calling who provided the popular mandate as idiots. A mandate is a mandate, you don’t then slice them up to see whether it is 37% or 50%. If the expectation was that only who got more than 50% votes is legitimate, the constitution would have said so. So stop trivialising India for you own stupid arguments.
Your comment that any change can now be wrought by this GOI is disingenous to say the least.
Firstly, the Kashmir issue is unlike anything the rest of India has. Unless there is something on the lines of formation of UK, a special status forever is an incomplete task in the formation of the union.
Secondly, in the formation of the union, it was precisely this premise that, unlike Pakistan, India is not formed on the basis of a faith and therefore, saying Muslim Kashmir or Hindu Gujarat or Hindu India is what the people should refrain from.
Thirdly, as UT, development and opportunities for any citizen residing in this region would be the same as in any other UT which hopefully impacts especially the youth positively.
Fourthly, for over 70 years, the region has been in a limbo largely due to this incongruent policy vis a vis other parts of the union with sympathisers of a theocratic division always getting cross border support. With this doubt is now removed that narrative will need to change.
Finally, the proof will be in the pudding. If the region forges ahead with this new alignment, there would be no looking back.
Very well said…
What is your rate to write this piece?
72 Hoors apparently.
OMG. Such venom! And what is it directed against? What exactly does the writer find wrong in the ultimate result of this move? Has any rights of Kashmiris been taken away? Has the BJP taken over Kashmir? The heartburn pouring out here is entirely because it was a ‘fait accompli’ before anyone could wink. Modi & Shah did not give Rahul’s brigade time to obstruct, disrupt and prevent this from happening by stalling the House. That is exactly what was needed for the government to take this through to its rightful conclusion. What is Mr Vij whining about? This is what MOST Indians have wanted for a long time and which Congress was doing everything to prevent. That alone should make it look GOOD !
Has any rights of Kashmiris been taken away? Yes, they have been when all the communication was cut off and their voices have been muted, if that wasn’t already clear to your deluded mind.
Well to prevent rioting and to maintain law and order, that was necessary. But please don’t let facts obscure your propoganda and hate. that’s what you and your ilk are good for anyway.
This, btw, happens regularly and without reason in Pakistan, maybe you should consider moving your base there, you’ll have plenty to whine about. That way, everyone is happy 🙂
So your screen name passed the biased “moderation” standards of this website????!!
No right is absolute other than right to live, right to communication is certainly low down the order and can be taken away temporarily for the greater good of rest of the population’s right to live.
It is you that is ‘deluded’. Communication was not cut off for eternity. Even ‘you’ can see that. And what else have you against this? NOTHING.
Please read the legal commentary on what the govt has done. The reorganization of the states can only happen after parliament approval. The abrogation of Article 370 has been done because the article itself allows the president to put any part of it in abeyance. So, your rhetorical questions about separating Mumbai from Maharashtra or Darjeeling from West Bengal just betray a lack of understanding. It is generally better to understand before opening your mouth (or jumping on your keyboard).
Understanding is not what he’s paid for. His job is to spread propoganda. Something he is extremely good at.
This undemocratic act of modi shah will alienate India further in global political scenario..
Dear Author,
Please leave your profession. You don’t know how journalism should be done. By this article you clearly support terrorism, murder and rape. Journalists should be positive with their article and not radical.
Shivam Vij would like to sing the song of his paid master. Do it as many times. What was temporary was made permanent. The J&K as a state got annexed in 1947, but article 370 with temporary as words promulgated in 1949, giving power to Sheik Abdulla to formulate his own decision in J&K cabinet through article 35A by Nehru, without even going through cabinet meeting or Parliament. Now people talk about hurried manner in which decision taken? Nehru had his on ego with Sardar Patel and went and announced plebiscite in Kashmir which was unwarranted. Undoing many wrongs need lot of will power. If it burns a lot for Shivam Vij, it is better advised to apply burnol. It works, no matter how deep the burn is.
This writer seems a terrorist sympathizer.What credibility he has to write this type of Article? Frist prove your self then talk.
Journslists like Shivam who are self appointed gaurdians of democracy forget that this govt is a democratically elected by the people of India .
BJP had clearly mentioned in its manifesto about abrogatoon of article 370 , so the author needs to take a chill pill .
I welcome this move but I feel the J&K should get full statehood when normalcy reaches to the region. Fighting terrorism is one issue but preservation of kashmiri culture and its identity too important as we do in other part of the country. Any attempt to threat the cultural identity of Kashmir will backfire. A kashmiri has same right of identity as a Gujarati has… If you protect this interest then only your this move will be successful. By the way one more thing to say, the seperatists will get a stronger support with the people support bases shifting from mainstream political parties to these separatists, how are you going to counter it? With bruit force? It will not amuse any one except your support base of communal begots and trigger happy men
@Baba: That’s precisely what the home minister said. Once normalcy is restored, they plan to legislate to make Jammu and Kashmir to be a state instead of a UT. It makes sense.
There should have been a time line for that, keeping it open ended doesn’t solve the purpose
No one stops Shivam from raising economic issues and utter failure of Modi to galvanize the economy. Art 370 needed to be scrapped and it is done and over. We can debate the method and fear that one day Mumbai will become a UT. Issue is when such a simple solution to this 70 year old problem was available, why no Congress government could do it? What is wrong that will now happen to Ladakh and J&K as UTs ? We are now on a firm path of Insaniyat, Jamuriat and Kashmiriat. Only Abdullah and Muftis have no place there.
Dear persistent Burnol user since May-2014 (double quantity post May-2019) viz. Shivam Vij, people voted for Modi government to take strong decision so that people are busy living their lives. It is doing exactly that and only you & Khan Market gang are worried because your bread butter (daana paani in Hindi) are in danger.
Usually I agree with your views MR Vij but this piece is fearmongering. One can agree with the govt decision or one can oppose and express so. However going to such an extend to say be afraid is not journalism. And if any such decision had to be taken, then the way it has been taken is the best possible way, else discussion & debates on this are going on for past many years.
Kashmir was a bilateral issue; Modi government thinks it has made it a unilateral issue. It has, unwittingly, made it an MULTILATERAL or international issue.
One hopes the state administration has planned for supply of essential commodities. Some panic buying has taken place, but that will not suffice. In carefully controlled conditions, food and fuel should be moved to the Valley and then brought almost to doorstep. Medicines and hospitals for emergency treatment should be provided for. 2. On what triggered this move at short notice, speculation is inevitable. The woes of the economy cannot be forgotten by sailing on the Dal Lake. The rupee and stocks have both trembled. If a political boost was aimed for, that will be shallow and temporary. 3. What next ? Seven million Kashmiris have lived through three decades of insurgency. Successive administrations have not been squeamish with the use of force. Recall the terrible summer of 2010, which CM Omar Abdullah dealt with. Or how a senior, seasoned politician like CM Ghulam Nabi Azad was blindsided by the agitation over transfer of land to the Trust that oversees the Yatra. We can only hope and pray that these issues have been carefully thought through, there is some plan to actually win the hearts and minds of the gentle Kashmiri people.
Gentle Kashmiri people who gently committed rapes and murder of pandits ?
Dont be scared
And Don’t make others to be scared.
do a right journalism
shruthi
The Hon’ble afraid, very afraid author should explain why staunchly critical parties like BSP, AAP, other non-NDA parties like BJD, YSRCP, BDF are supporting this decision.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/jammu-kashmir-article-370-parliament-amit-shah-5879583/
Timing:
The reason seems to be that the govt wants to take such tough decisions early on in its term (Triple Talaq is another example) so that it has enough time to respond to the repercussion (unlike GST which got passed fairly late in Modi 1.0)
In total, BSP (4), AAP (3), BJD (7), YSRCP (2) command 16 seats in the Rajya Sabha.
Very well said.
Yes, the Modi Government could do anything they deem necessary for the development of this nation, cause it’s been rightfully elected to the Lok Sabha by the 130 crore(approx) people of India!! Wow, this article has given absolutely no insight of the positives to be noticed in this decision!! What about the uniform civil code!!
Disagree with your views, in fact J&K is integrated today, earlier orders were unconstitutional. I was awaiting this day in my life
Burnol moment for the author
Only you Shivam Vij need to afraid.