Srinagar: The National Conference and the PDP will be moving court against the Government of India’s decision to extend the 77th and 103rd Amendments of the country’s Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir while the state has no elected government in place.
Omar Abdullah in a series of tweets said that Article 370 makes concurrence of Government of Jammu and Kashmir a condition precedent for extension of a Constitutional provision not falling under three subjects.
“The Government means an elected government. President cannot seek concurrence of Governor who is a representative or agent of President. Same will apply even where only consent is required,” Abdullah tweeted.
Abdullah said that it is for this reason that they will consult eminent lawyers today ‘to see how best we can challenge this blatantly unconstitutional order in court.’
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti tweeted: “Ostensibly, using the Governor’s office seems to be a sinister move to further disempower the state. This will not be tolerated & the entire state will fight against this criminal and illegal move of GoI.”
“Why is GoI adamant on adding fuel to the fire and letting the situation slip out of control? Why push Kashmiris to the wall? PDP is willing to work with like minded parties and people of the state to fight this battle tooth and nail in the courts,” Mufti said in another tweet.
Government of India on Thursday gave amended a clause of the contentious Article 370, which gives special status to the state.
“It will serve the purpose of application of relevant provisions of the Constitution of India, as amended through the Constitution (77th Amendment) Act, 1995 and Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act, 2019 for Jammu and Kashmir, by issuing the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Amendment Order, 2019 by the President under clause (1) of Article 370,” Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said.
