New Delhi | Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday said that Constitutional Articles such as Article 35A and 370 should be removed without a vote in the Parliament.
The BJP leader was responding to National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah statement that any attempts made to thwart Jammu and Kashmir’s special status would not be allowed to succeed.
Speaking to media Swamy told, “He (Farooq Abdullah) is nobody to say that at all. These are all temporary laws. It’s there in the Constitution. Article 370, for example, is stated to be a temporary provision which can be removed without a vote from the parliament. So he can go on saying and look foolish when it is removed. Also, he can’t do anything and he has no support from the public.”
Responding to Abdullah’s statement, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja stated that no attempts should be made to tamper with Article 35 (A). “Farooq Abdullah is a very senior leader of the country, he knows the problem of Jammu and Kashmir better than anyone else and there is a view that Article 370 has not been properly safeguarded. Now that there are apprehensions or questions raised with regards to Article 35A, that is where Farooq Abdullah has come out openly saying there should not be any attempt to tamper with the article,” he said.
Earlier Farooq Abdullah, while addressing a public gathering in Kashmir valley said that any attempts made to assault Article 35 (A) which disallows people from residing in Jammu and Kashmir, buying or owning immovable property in the state, settle permanently, or get state government jobs would be opposed by the National Conference.
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