Lok Sabha opposition lawmakers requested the government’s Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election timetable on Tuesday. The government has said that it is ready and that the EC has the final say. The federal government assumed control of the Union Territory in 2018.
As part of Wednesday’s joint consideration of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill and the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, the home minister Amit Shah intervened and asserted that the Modi government had ensured that the nation has a single flag and constitution.
The House of Representatives considered both bills on July 26. After TMC member Saugata Roy dismissed “ek nishan, ek pradhan, ek samvidhan (one flag, one head, one Constitution)” as a “political slogan,” Shah raised the issue of how a country could have not one but two heads of state, constitutions, and flags. The Trinamool Congress chief allegedly made “objectionable” remarks, in his opinion.
“Whoever did it was wrong,” Shah said in response to the other benches’ remarks. Narendra Modi has taken care of it. Do you agree or disagree? It is irrelevant. No one in the country wants it less.
This comment might be seen as a call to remove Article 370 as it pertains to Jammu and Kashmir. The Congress party’s Amar Singh brought up the two measures when he questioned the government on its plans to hold elections in the Union Territory.
Singh blamed Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, for the conflict in Kashmir.
Jugal Kishore Sharma, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Lok Sabha member for Jammu and Kashmir, has said that the bill to rebrand the “weak and underprivileged classes” as “Other Backward Classes” would facilitate the first-ever quota in the nation for those living in the state. Roy thinks the government should announce when the election will occur.
After Article 370 was removed, he said, the lives of the Jammu and Kashmiri people remained the same. He remarked that just now the first state was being turned into a Union Territory.
According to Thakur, although it is unfortunate that security officials have been killed, the opposition should not ignore the 45,000 lives lost in Jammu and Kashmir during their 70 years in power. While announcing the voting schedules for five states on October 9, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar stated that the commission would conduct the Jammu and Kashmir election at the “right time” considering the current security situation and other elections in the Union Territory.
The government should not enact these laws owing to constitutional proprietary demands, Tewari stated, citing the current case before the Supreme Court that involves the revocation of Article 370.
Peace in Jammu and Kashmir is “more important” than the approaching elections, says BJP leader Jamyang Tsering Namgyal. The administration is attempting to prolong the Kashmir conflict till the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, according to A. M. Ariff, a member of the CPI(M).
