Congress committing dacoity on rights of OBCs, SCs, STs: PM
“Wherever it (Congress) can do it, it will try to loot the claims of the SCs, STs and OBCs and give them to others,” said Modi.
The Parliament on Tuesday passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill 2019, thus approving the resolution to revoke Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir. The bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha on Monday and approved by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Now only the President’s approval is required for the bill to take the shape of an Act which will bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories — Jammu and Kashmir with a legislature, and Ladakh without a legislature.
The Bill was passed with 370 members voting in its favour and 70 voting against it.
Home Minister Amit Shah, while replying to the debate on Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha, said as Article 370 stops Jammu and Kashmir to associating with India, it should be abolished. Shah asserted that the decision has been taken for the welfare of the Valley and said that the state is most dear to the government.
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“People of the Valley are our own. We want to embrace them because they have given the maximum sacrifice and faced the maximum pain. Over 41,000 people of the state have been killed since 1989 only because of Section 370.
“What did we get from Article 370? It gave unemployment and kept far from education. It only encouraged separatism pressed by Pakistan,” said Shah, assuring that whatever mistakes were done by previous governments will not be repeated.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while welcoming the passage of the bills, described it as a momentous occasion in parliamentary democracy and said a new dawn awaits the state which is now free from the shackles of vested interest groups.
(With agency inputs)
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