SRINAGAR, Oct. 7 -- ON AUGUST 5, the Home Minister of India tabled a bill in the Rajya Sabha to reorganise the Jammu and Kashmir State. This bill was passed easily as BJP enjoys brute majority in both the houses. Special powers J&K enjoyed under Article 370 were revoked by a presidential order. These two acts altered the relationship of J&K with rest of India. The state was bifurcated into two Union Territories--the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir with legislature and Union Territory of Ladakh. To better understand how this special provision (Art 370) was passed and became part of Indian Constitution, we need a little peek into 'one of the days' of its (Art 370) Constituent Assembly history.
On 17th of October 1949, barely a month bef...