As TMC MPs, including Derek O’Brien, Saugata Roy and Sudip Bandyopadhyay, raised their voice against the scrapping of Article 370 party MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray welcomed the Centre’s decision. Kolkata: The debate over scrapping of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir took an interesting turn after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) appeared to be divided over the vexatious issue. As TMC MPs, including Derek O’Brien, Saugata Roy and Sudip Bandyopadhyay, raised their voice against the scrapping of Article 370 and demanded discussion on the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2019,Read More

Mamata Banerjee also said the Centre should have consulted all political parties before coming to a decision to scrap Constitutional provisions that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister on Tuesday said her party, the Trinamool Congress, will strongly oppose the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill that proposes to bifurcate the state into two union territories. Banerjee also said the Centre should have consulted all political parties before coming to a decision to scrap Constitutional provisions that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir. TheRead More

The Congress questioned the legality behind introducing the bills, even as Home Minister Amit Shah said nobody can stop the government from introducing a resolution on Kashmir in Parliament. New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday asserted in Lok Sabha that Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Aksai Chin are part of Jammu and Kashmir and said “we are ready to give our lives for it”, even as the Congress slammed the Centre’s move to repeal Article 370. Moving a resolution for revoking provisions of Article 370 and the Jammu andRead More

Moving resolution on Kashmir in Rajya Sabha, Home minister Amit Shah on Monday said that he was sure that abrogation of Article 370 would end the ‘bloody war’ in Kashmir. New Delhi: Former BJP leader and a vocal critic of the Narendra Modi government, Yashwant Sinha, on Monday called the Centre’s decision to revoke Article 370 “a pure political step” and said the move would help the BJP achieve an even bigger electoral win than what Rajiv Gandhi achieved after the assassination of his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, in 1984.Read More