Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said the transformative decision of abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A has ushered in a new era of empowerment for marginalised sections and strengthened grassroots democracy in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The Kashmir-centric political parties and trade bodies were describing this as tampering with the Article 35A.
Martand Singh, the great-grandson of Maharaja Hari Singh who introduced the state subject law on 20 April 1927 in Jammu and Kashmir and whom the Kashmir-centric political parties and separatists are invoking in a bid to defend the Article 35A, says the Constitutional provision is discriminatory towards women
Separatist leaders have given a call for two-day shutdown on 5 and 6 August when the case would come up before a 3-member bench of the Supreme Court
