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Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs 05-August-2019 19:20 IST Government brings Resolution to Repeal Article 370 of the Constitution Shri Amit Shah introduces Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Bill, 2019 President issues Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order 2019 Jammu & Kashmir Reservation (2nd Amendment) Bill, 2019 introduced in Rajya Sabha All of the above passed in Rajya Sabha unanimously Union Minister for Home Affairs, Shri Amit Shah, introduced two bills and two resolutions regarding Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) today. These are as follows: Constitution (Application to Jammu & Kashmir) Order, 2019 {Ref. Article 370(1) of Constitution of India} – issued by President of India to supersede the 1954 order related to Article 370. Resolution for Repeal of Article 370 of the Constitution of India {Ref. Article 370 (3)} Jammu & Kashmir (Reorganisation) Bill, 2019 {Ref. Article 3 of Constitution of India} Jammu &

He added the government's decision to Revoke Article 370 would ensure stability, market access, and predictable laws in the state, which could help it gain investment, especially in key sectors like tourism, agriculture, IT, healthcare among others. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the decision to bifurcate J&K was taken after a "great deal of thought" and that it would certainly benefit the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. He said he was confident that after the abrogation of Article 370, the investment would start coming in. He said that leading businesses had already shown interest in investing in J&K. In an interview to The Economic Times, PM Modi said that the government's decision to Revoke Article 370 would ensure "stability, market access, and predictable laws" in the state, which could help it gain investment, especially in key sectors like tourism, agriculture, IT, healthcare among others. "This will help develop a

The constitutional, democratic, historical and moral arguments being marshalled against the Centre’s move in Jammu and Kashmir are unfounded. I, for one, regard it as an extraordinary privilege and honour to be a part of this historical exercise. While we cannot satisfy all the prophets of doom and gloom, we are sure that an overwhelming majority of the citizens of India appreciate the challenges ahead and we have their confidence and support. It is not always that a writer has to quickly deal with the practical consequences of what he wrote about recently. My last article (‘ A New Deal for Kashmir ,’ July 5), published in these pages, looked at the difficult choices India faced in Kashmir and suggested that we should have a wider debate about repealing  Article 370  as one of the options. Predictably, it caused a furore amongst a section of our intelligentsia for whom Article 370 was more an article of faith than anything else. Advertising Around midnight on Aug