The government on Monday revoked Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, and proposed that the state be bifurcated into two union territories — Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
The bill to reorganise the state and the resolution to abrogate Article 370 was passed in the Rajya Sabha on Monday and will be introduced by home minister Amit Shah in the Lok Sabha today.
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Here’s what happened yesterday:
— Home minister Amit Shah announced in the Rajya Sabha that Article 370 had beenabolished by a presidential order that would come into force “at once”.
– Former chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, both put under house arrest on Sunday night, called the move a “betrayal” of people’s trust in India.
— Shah moved two bills and a resolution in the Rajya Sabha. The Bill to bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories was passed in the Rajya Sabha after a day-long debate.
— Rajya Sabha passed the resolution to abrogate Article 370 and the accompanying Article 35Aby a voice vote, ending seven decades of autonomous state government.
— Pakistan has called India’s decision to revoke J&K’s special status “illegal” and PM Imran Khan said it would “further deteriorate” relations between the two countries.
— PDP members Mir Fayaz and Nazir Ahmed Laway tore a copy of the Constitution in protest and were evicted from the Rajya Sabha.
— NDA ally JD(U) did not support the Bill, but Opposition parties BSP, AAP, TDP, TRS, YSR Congress and BJD did. NCP abstained from voting.
— Congress, Left parties, SP and DMK opposed it.
—Congress chief whip in Rajya Sabha Bhubaneshwar Kalita quit as a member of the House over the party’s stand on Article 370.
— The home ministry issued an instructed all states and Union Territories to keep security forces on “maximum alert” following its decisions on Kashmir.
— The announcement came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting of the Union cabinet at his house on Monday morning.
— It followed the house arrest of political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, including Mufti, Abdullah and Sajad Lone.
— Internet and phone services were shut down in parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Educational institutions and offices were closed in the state and Section 144 was imposed in Srinagar and Jammu districts.