JK People’s Conference and People Democratic Party on Tuesday alleged the national conference government in J&K endorsed the centre's August 5, 2019 decision (revocation of Art 370) changes.
JKPC chief Sajad Gani Lone and PDP MLA Waheed Para reacted sharply to the proposed deletion of references to the J&K Constitution in business rules.
Lone, in his post on X, wrote, “Endorsement of the draft proposal prepared by the Assembly secretariat regarding Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the House will be the most explicit and unforgivable ratification of August 5, 2019 changes.”
“It will effectively end once and for all any scope for a legal challenge to 5 August changes in the future. While we dreamt of an unambiguous resolution by the new assembly rejecting 5 August 2019 and that becoming a reference point in any future legal challenge—now we have a shocker,” he wrote.
Also read: 80 pc of Kashmiri Pandit land in Kupwara unsold: RTI
“The same Assembly is being used to bury any such chances of legal challenges in the future. The present assembly, reflecting the will of the people of J and K, will now be remembered as the endorser, not the rejecter, of August 5, 2019,” he added.
Lone went on to say, “Let me briefly summarise the NC BJP covert agreement to endorse and normalise 5 August 2019. First they script the context. NC starts the “all are BJP” discourse.
Second, the BJP mysteriously behaves in a manner that endorses that discourse. The discourse is strengthened and then elections are announced.
While the people of J and K to some extent subscribe to the “all others are BJP” discourse, the agencies led by a retired old warhorse in uninterrupted engagement with the NC for the last 3 years ensure total compliance of the agencies in favour of NC,” he wrote.
PDP MLA expressed similar sentiments advocating for Lone’s concern; Para posted a screenshot of a news report on X reading: “The modifications have been proposed to make the rules in sync with the constitutional changes effected on August 5, 2019,” a member of the committee wishing to remain anonymous said.
“The modified J&K Assembly business rules mark a shift from Article 370, effectively endorsing the constitutional changes of August 5, 2019. A clear acknowledgement of the new status quo,” Para wrote.
Meanwhile, the Business Rules Committee of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, headed by Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather, is underway in Jammu to review and finalise amendments to the rules that govern legislative procedures.
Follow us
