Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that no one can bring back the special status of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. He said, no one can bring back Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
Indian media NDTV reported this information in a report on Tuesday (April 30).
It was mainly because of this clause in the Indian constitution that Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir was given special status and it was controversially revoked by the Modi government in August 2019.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government will implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the country after winning the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, according to reports.
Addressing an election rally in Bihar’s Begusarai district, Amit Shah said: ‘India alliance leaders say they will bring triple talaq and Muslim personal law in the country if they come to power at the centre. They will neither form a government, nor enforce triple talaq and Muslim personal law in the country. BJP will retain power and implement UCC in the country.”
He also said, “Opposition leaders are also saying that they will bring back Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. I want to tell Rahul Gandhi that as long as there is even one BJP worker alive, no one can bring back Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.”
This Home Minister of India also said that hundreds of youths have been killed in Bihar due to Maoist trouble. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi has put an end to Maoist activities in Bihar and Jharkhand, he claimed. He also removed the culture of assault and killing from Bihar.’
Earlier Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar had commented that the cancellation of special status of Kashmir was one of the biggest achievements. In a conversation with NDTV in August last year, he called the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution “one of the biggest achievements” of the BJP-led central government of India.
It should be noted that India canceled Article 370 of the special status given to Kashmir in the Indian Constitution during the time of Jawaharlal Nehru on August 5, 2019. At that time the state of Jammu and Kashmir was completely abolished and it was converted into two separate Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu-Kashmir.
Originally two nuclear powers in South Asia, Pakistan and India claim all of disputed Kashmir, but both rule parts of it. They fought against each other in two of the three wars over this Himalayan region.
There have been several wars between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Both have now become nuclear powers, but history tells us that the dispute over Kashmir began before Pakistan and India gained independence in August 1947.
In October 1947, the then Hindu Maharaja of Kashmir, Hari Singh, signed an agreement to accede to India in the face of an attack by Pakistani Pashtun tribal forces, and received Indian military assistance. Eventually, the India-Pakistan war started in 1947.
This war between the two countries lasted for almost two years. A ceasefire followed in Kashmir in 1948, but Pakistan refused to withdraw its troops. Since then, Kashmir has been effectively divided into two parts controlled by Pakistan and India.
On the other hand, through the Sino-Indian War of 1962, China established control over the Aksai-Chin part of Kashmir. And the following year, Pakistan ceded the Trans-Karakoram region of Kashmir to China.
Since then, control of Kashmir has been divided between three countries – Pakistan, India and China.
