The Central government on Monday defended its decision to abrogate Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir saying post the changes, street violence, which was engineered and orchestrated by terrorists and secessionist networks has now become thing of past.
Democratic Progressive Azad Party chief Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday that bringing about Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will not be as easy for the central government as abrogation of Article 370.
Former Minister of Uttarakhand and current Disciplinary Committee president of Uttarakhand Congress, Navprabhat spoke about the ongoing issue of the Uniform Civil Code. Giving examples of CAA, NRC and Article 370, he termed UCC as a "half-baked idea".
A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and also comprising justices PS Narasimha and Manoj Misra said that the matter related to Article 370 is listed for directions on July 11 and they will hear this plea thereafter only.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated that it is likely to start hearing petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories in August.
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With the Supreme Court fixing July 11 to hear pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370, former J-K CM and Vice President of Jammu Kashmir National Conference Omar Abdullah said that using the law, they want to take back what was taken away from them.
While talking to ANI over the phone, the bureaucrat said that he has withdrawn his petition challenging the Presidential Order to scrap Article 370 a long time ago.
"Welcome Hon'ble SC's decision to finally hear petitions pending since 2019 challenging the illegal abrogation of Article 370. I hope justice is upheld & delivered for the people of J&K. The SC ruling on Article 370 maintained that the provision can be abrogated only on the recommend
"Article 370 was removed legally by the Parliament. Those who want to take the matter to courts can do so as they are open to all. But, article 370 is already dead...The dead cannot be brought back...," BJP spokesperson Altaf Thakur said on the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court to hear
Various petitions are pending before the top court challenging the validity of the law scrapping Article 370 of the Constitution and special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcating the state into two Union Territories.
"The Modi government came to power with a clear sense that the terms of negotiations with Pakistan need to be altered. There can't be a framework, where India would be making concessions, or the idea that the status of Kashmir is open-ended, expert, author and columnist on international affa