By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, August 5, 2019:

Shah on Monday proposed to scrap Article 370 of the Constitution which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir. During presentation of the resolution, he said the state will be split into two Union Territories: Jammu and Kashmir with an Assembly and Ladakh without one.

Making a historic announcement in the Rajya Sabha that triggered bedlam, Shah said: “I am presenting the resolution to  revoke Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir except the first clause 370 (1).”

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“I support this resolution. My party BJD supports this resolution. Even though, we are a regional party, but the nation is first for us,” said BJD MP Prasanna Acharya during debate on the resolution in Rajya Sabha.

“We have our regional aspiration. But for us, our motherland comes first ahead of everything,” the RS MP said.

Hailing Shah for the unprecedented move after a gap of seven decades of independence, Acharya said, “We have been saying that Jammu & Kashmir is an integral of India. Is it really integral part where the Constitution of India could not be implemented? An Indian citizen is not allowed to buy property there that we claim as part of the country. I would like to thank Home Minister Amit Shah that Jammu & Kashmir is now integral part of India in true sense.”

The BJD MP hoped that the Modi government would fulfill the long-standing wish of the people in the country to see Pakistan Occupied Kashmir to become part of Kashmir and India.

“The 130 crore population of India has been eagerly waiting for the day when the POK becomes integral part of the nation,” he said.

While expressing concern about the freedom of Kashmiris over scrapping of the law, Acharya assured the House that Centre’s move will free them from torment.