Er Mohammad Imtiaz Khan on Sunday said that even the Parliament of the country is not constitutionally mandated to review or scrap Article 370 of the Constitution of India. Reacting to BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modis call for the Parliament to debate Article 370 with a view to scrapping it, Er Mohammad Imtiaz Khan said one had expected the prime ministerial hopeful to steer clear of divisive issues and follow Atal Bihari Vajpayee in building bridges rather than spark off controversies that have no relevance except trying to reap votes at the cost of national interest.Even the ordinary students of constitutional history know that Article 370 providing special status to J&K has gained apermanent status after the Constitutional Assembly of the state approved it, Er Mohammad Imtiaz Khan in a statement issued in Rajouri. Even the Article 1 of the Constitution of India,determining the territory of the country applies to J&K by virtue of Article 370 only, he added. Adding a warning note he said, Scrap this bridge with rest of the country and the entire gamut of accession and related issues stare in your face. If Modi aspires for the top job of a country as diverse as India he will have to rise above prejudices, perceptions, propaganda and work for uniting people rather than dividing them. Challenging BJPs Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on implementation of article 370 in Er Mohammad Imtiaz Khan hit back and said His (Modis) raking up of Article 370 is a very disturbing indicator of his approach to sensitivities of the people of Jammu and Kashmir who acceded to India in pursuit of some dreams which still elude them and constitutional guarantees that can neither be withdrawn nor wished away, . He further said Modis utterances have the potential of creating fissures within the state, besides increasing the trust deficit between the state and rest of the country. He also said that the rights of women of Jammu and Kashmir are equal as compared to the other parts of the country. Women of Jammu and Kashmir enjoy equal rights as compared to the males of the state, he maintained and said that women here, who married outside the have equal constitutional rights as compared to men of the state. It is factually incorrect to say that women of Jammu and Kashmir do not enjoy equal rights, he observed, adding, any woman of Jammu and Kashmir who married outside does not lose her inheritance rights. Er Mohammad Imtiaz Khan further reminded Modi that Gujjars and Bakerwals of Jammu and Kashmir have been granted Scheduled Tribe (ST) rights wayback in early 1990s, so the BJP leader should correct his this information also.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 05:20:16 +0000
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