J&K After The Abrogation Of Article 370 Flashcards
Jammu and Kashmir after repealing the article 370 and 35A
Earlier Jammu and Kashmir had 22 districts
Leh is huge district of Jammu and Kashmir
Now India will have 28 states and 8 union territories
And now Jammu and Kashmir will have 20 districts
Ladakh will have 2 districts: Leh and Kargil
The constitution of India fully applicable to Jammu and Kashmir (no separate constitution)
Now land can be purchased in Jammu and Kashmir and there will be only one flag of the nation + one citizenship throughout the nation
The Article 370 is in part 21 of the constitution is temporary law, transitional law and provides special provisions to J&K
This bill was passed only for the reorganisation of the states after repealing article 370 and article 35A
J&K is divided into two union territories: 1) Union territories with legislature (J&K)
2) Ladakh an union territory without legislature
Special provisions for Jammu and Kashmir
Raja Hari Singh Sain signed the instrument of accession
The result being that sardar Vallabhbhai Patel sent an army to Kashmir
But Jawaharlal Nehru, having an image of a democratic leader, did not want to hinter his image with war of armed force so he announce the matter to be solved under the United Nations
At that time, the United Nations consisted of the US and the UK
The UN did not want to solve the matter since they wanted to watch Central Asia (China, India Pakistan Russia etc) and everybody looked after their own benefit
Aftermath
Once Sheikh Abdullah became the PM, he said that from Kashmir to Kanyakumari is United India
Hearing this Nehru became very happy and made land reforms
Jawaharlal Nehru in constituent assembly announced article 370 (w/o military, information, foreign).
The rest of the ministry is within Kashmir
Special status for J and k
The state of Jammu and Kashmir holes peculiar position under the constitution
The J&K comes under the territory of India as defined in article 1
Article 370 in the part 21 of the constitution grants a special status to J&K
The provisions of constitution of India do not applied to it
It is the only state in the Indian union which has its own separate state constitution and here the CM is the PM of Kashmir
Article 370 incorporated into the constitution of India states that the provisions with respect to the state of Jammu and Kashmir are temporary and not permanent
It became operative on 17 November 1952
However, the president can declare that when the article 370 ceases to be operative and that it operates with exceptions and modifications
This can be done only by the president on the recommendation of the constituent assembly of the states
There will no longer be financial emergency in J&K but National emergency will be applicable
Urdu will continue to be the official language and J&k has special constitution
Special provisions for some States
Article 371 makes special provisions with in the state of Maharashtra and Gujarat
Article 371 A in regards Nagaland
Article 371 B in with in the state of Assam
Article 371 C with in regards to Manipur
Article 371 D which regards to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
Article 371 E regarding the establishment of Central University in Andhra Pradesh
Article 371 F in regards to the state of Sikkim
Article 371 G in regards of the state of Mizoram
Article 371 H with regards to Arunachal Pradesh
Article 371 I with regards to Goa
Article 371 J with regards the state of Karnataka
