A day after Bharatiya Janata Party-led government on Monday, August 5, announced the abolition of Article 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir and announced that Jammu and Kashmir would now be a Union Territory (UT) with a Legislative Assembly while Ladakh would be a UT without a Legislative Assembly Congress, MP Manish Tewari gave Adjournment Motion Notice in Lok Sabha over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
3:20 PM | Akhilesh Yadav said that the Modi government should have taken all parties into confidence before taking any such decision.
“A country runs on consensus and all parties should have been consulted and taken into confidence. Putting leaders under house arrest or exerting pressure on people is not correct, but BJP knows how to bring institutions under its thumb. The question is what will happen to PoK now,” Akhilesh Yadav asked.
12:00 PM | Today, when you remove Article 370, what message are you sending to other states who have special status? That you will remove Article 371 as well?: Manish Tewari
11:30 AM | “Jammu & Kashmir is an integral part of Union of India. PoK also comes under it, We will die for it!,” says Amit Shah
11:20 AM | “I want to know. You say its an internal matter. You bifurcated it. Can J&K be an internal matter considering previous bilateral agreements between India and Pakistan?, ” asks Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
11:10 AM | “I don’t think you are thinking about PoK, you violated all rules and converted a state into a Union Territory overnight,” Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury says in Lok Sabha
