India, Aug. 7 -- August 5, 2019, will remain a historic day for the country. On this day, the Modi Government scrapped Article 370 and Article 35A pertaining to Jammu & Kashmir in one stroke. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has resolved a complex issue, which many Prime Ministers had been grappling with unsuccessfully for the past 70 years, boldly within the first 100 days of his second term.
As a bureaucrat friend remarked, with half a page Presidential order and four hours of debate and discussion in the Rajya Sabha, Jammu & Kashmir as a State disappeared and in its place emerged two Union Territories - Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. The political reason for clubbing Jammu & Kashmir might be to make the State Hindu
majority gradually.
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