{"id":18696,"date":"2019-07-07T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T03:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=18696"},"modified":"2019-07-07T08:48:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T03:18:01","slug":"modi-to-fulfil-mookerjees-dream-of-scrapping-article-370-35a-gehlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=18696","title":{"rendered":"Modi to fulfil Mookerjee\u2019s dream of scrapping Article 370, 35A: Gehlot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Raipur: Union minister Thaawarchand Gehlot expressed confidence on Saturday that Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee\u2019s \u201cdream\u201d of scrapping Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution would be fulfilled by the Narendra Modi government.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment was speaking to reporters here after launching the BJP\u2019s membership drive, which coincided with the 118th birth anniversary of Mookerjee, the founder of the Jan Sangh, the BJP\u2019s predecessor.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Article 370 grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and limits Parliament\u2019s power to make laws concerning the state. Article 35A empowers the state assembly to define \u2018permanent residents\u2019 for bestowing special rights on them.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cMookerjee fought against (operation of) Articles 370 and 35A in Kashmir and wanted to abolish these articles from the state. We have been making efforts to fulfil his dream since the time of Jan Sangh. But now it seems the time has come,\u201d Gehlot, a senior BJP leader, said.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cBoth the issues were part of our election manifesto. We will be successful in fulfilling his dream by abrogating these articles,\u201d he added.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Asked if the party aimed to abolish the two articles within a specified period, Gehlot said, \u201cWe will be successful in abolishing these articles in the second term of Modi government. The party manifesto is for five years, but it will be done much earlier.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A batch of petitions have been filed in Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of Article 35A. The first petition challenging 35A was filed in July 2014 by a rightwing non-government organisation, \u2018We the Citizens\u2019. It challenged the validity of the Article on the grounds that it had been inserted into the Indian Constitution through a Presidential Order in 1954, rather than by following the procedure prescribed in Article 368 of the Indian Constitution.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Subsequent to this petition, three separate petitions were filed to challenge Article 35A. One of these, filed by Dr Charu Wali Khanna, contended that it \u201cdenies property right to a woman and her children marrying a person from outside the state\u201d. The West Pakistan Refugees Association challenged Article 35A on grounds of discrimination in acquisition of property, government service, and voting rights.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Supreme Court has clubbed the three subsequent petitions with the main petition filed by \u2018We the Citizens\u2019.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2014PTI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raipur: Union minister Thaawarchand Gehlot expressed confidence on Saturday that Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee\u2019s \u201cdream\u201d of scrapping Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution would be fulfilled by the Narendra Modi government. The Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment was speaking to reporters here after launching the BJP\u2019s membership drive, which coincided with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}