Meanwhile, PDP's Rajya Sabha MPs Nazir Ahmad Laway and Mir Mohammad Fayaz were seen wearing black bands at the Parliament area, as a mark of protest against the situation in Kashmir.
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The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill was passed in Rajya Sabha on Monday. The bill seeks to divide the state of J&K into two Union Territories — Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir. Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day.
The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (2nd Amendment) Bill passed in Rajya Sabha.
Amit Shah: Several MPs have asked how long will J&K remain a union territory. I want to assure them when the situation gets normal and the right time comes, we're ready to make J&K a state again. It may take a little longer, but it will become a state once again, one day.
Amit Shah: The proposals I have brought in today are, to my understanding, the solution to the Kashmir issue.
Even as the government on Monday modified Article 370, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, and moved a bill to bifurcate the state into two separate union territories, it received support in the Parliament from unlikely quarters, with staunch critics like Mayawati’s BSP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) backing the move. Read more
Nirmala Sitharaman said, "It is a historic debate. The step is a result of a lot of consultation. Why should special status of Jammu & Kashmir start and end with discrimination towards women, lower castes?"
Kapil Sibal: History will tell whether Article 370 was a blot on history... Is democracy run only by numbers? Without any notice, without any prior intimation, you bring a bill in th Parliament and ask the members to deliberate upon it. How can the members discuss the bill when they don't know what is there in it. The truth is that you don't want any discussion or suggestion.
Chidambaram: What you are doing today is sending a very very wrong signal to all the states of this country... For heaven's sake, don't dismember the state of Jammu & Kashmir... Don't commit that cardinal sin, monumental blunder.
Chidambaram: What you are doing to Jammu and Kashmir can be done to any other state. You are dismembering the state. Same provisions, same methods, same resolutions can be applied to any state.
Chidambaram: You are reducing states to colonies and are thinking what you are doing is constitutional? ...I think you have forgotten that you cannot modify Article 370 by an order under Article 370.
"This is a very sad day. In the constitutional history of India, it is a black day," says P Chidambaram. "One of the honourable members has said you have corrected an injustice. History will prove you to be wrong and future generations will realise what a grave mistake this house is making today," P Chidambaram said.
NCP has decided to abstain from voting on scrapping of Article 370.
Article 370 was a miscarriage of history and this atonement (repeal of the article) of was needed, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region and Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office Rajendra Singh said.
Was there any constitutional compulsion to end the statehood of Jammu & Kashmir, asked SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav. Even though AAP is supporting the move of appointing a Lt Governor in J&K, Delhi government (run by the party) itself remains disturbed by the interference of th LG there, he added.
Derek 'O Brien: Today is a Black Monday. A dark day for Parliamentary democracy, dark day for federalism, dark day for constitution, dark day for Rajya Sabha, dark day for the idea of India.
Integration isn't possible through law, it is only possible through the passage of heart, said Ghulam Nabi Azad. He said the NDA government has put an end to all the integration (of people of J&K with the rest of India) that was taking place in the past 30-35 years. "It is shameful that the you have made Jammu & Kashmir a non-entity by appointing a Lt Governor there, so that you can appoint even a peon or a clerk, sitting here (in Delhi)," he said.
Ghulam Nabi Azad: For the last few days, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh were tensed with a host of rumours flying all over. There were fears of Article 370 being scrapped, bifurcation of the state among many others. But, no one in the world, had expected all of these fears to come true together.
BJP revoked Article 370 for votes, it is playing with unity and integrity of state, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said outside Parliament. (PTI)
The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation bill, which is expected to be passed in RS today, will be brought to Lok Sabha tomorrow.
"You have played with the sentiments of people of Kashmir. When additional army personnel were deployed there, I was worried. Kashmir should not become Kosovo, East Timor and South Sudan," MDMK leader Vaiko said in the Upper House today.
Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 2:00 PM
"Our chief Nitish Kumar is carrying forward the tradition of JP Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia and George Fernandes. So our party is not supporting the Bill moved in the Rajya Sabha today. We have different thinking. We want that Article 370 should not be revoked," senior JD(U) leader KC Tyagi said.
BSP, BJD, YSRCP, Shiv Sena, AAP have extended support to the government's move. Congress, JD(U) and MDMK have opposed the move till now.
"We support the govt on its decisions on J & K. We hope this will bring peace and development in the state," Delhi CM and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said in a tweet.
"Aaj Jammu & Kashmir liya hai. Kal Balochistan, PoK lenge. Mujhe vishwaas hai desh ke PM akhand Hindustan ka sapna poora karenge," (Today we took Jammu Kashmir, tomorrow we will take Balochistan and PoK. I am sure PM Modi will make the dream of Akand Hindustan come true)
"Amma is well known for upholding sovereignty and integrity. So AIADMK party supports the two resolutions, Reorganisation Bill & the Reservation Bill," MP A Navaneethakrishnan said in the Rajya Sabha.
Supporting the move by the govt, BJD MP Prasanna Acharya in the Parliament said that the state of Kashmir became 'part of India' in 'real sense' today.
"In reality, the state of Jammu and Kashmir today became an integral part of India", BJD MP Prasanna Acharya said in Rajya Sabha. "Crores of Indians are waiting for the day when PoK will also become the part of India," Acharya said.
"My party supports this resolution. We are a regional party but for us nation is first," he added.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah read out the President’s Order in Rajya Sabha on Monday. According to the order, the state will be bifurcated as Union Territories – Jammu & Kashmir and Laddakh. While the Union Territory of Ladakh will be without a legislature, the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will be with the legislature. READ MORE HERE
In a huge move, Home Minister Amit Shah Monday announced scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution that provides special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Shah said the state will now be divided into two Union Territories — Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir. While the Ladakh UT will be without a legislature, the UT of J&K will be with legislature. Read more here
Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Parliament on Monday proposed scrapping of Article 370 from Indian Constitution which provides special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The proposal evoked massive protest from the Opposition which asked the Union government to roll back the order. Click here to read the full text of the President’s order scrapping Article 370.
PDP's MP Nazir Ahmad Laway and MM Fayaz protested in the Parliament premises following the resolution revoking Article 370 from J&K was moved by the Home Minister.
The two MPs were asked to go out of the House after they attempted to tear the Constitution.
Satish Chandra Mishra, BSP MP, in Rajya Sabha: Our party gives complete support. We want that the Bill be passed. Our party is not expressing any opposition to Article 370 Bill & the other Bill.
"Under the umbrella of Article 370 three families looted Jammu and Kashmir for years. Leader of Opposition (Ghulam Nabi Azad) said Article 370 connected J&K to India, it's not true. Maharaja Hari Singh signed J&K Instrument of Accession on 27 Oct 1947, Article 370 came in 1954," Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in the Rajya Sabha.
What Amit Shah said in Rajya Sabha today
* Article 370 (that grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir) is scrapped
* J&K, Ladakh to be Union Territories
* Ladakh UT will be without a legislature
* JK UT will be with legislature
Fayad Ahmad Mir of PDP with his torn kurta and black band outside RS protesting against abrogation of article 370 saying it’s a breach of trust to people of Kashmir.
Responding to Ghulam Nabi Azad in the Rajya Sabha, Amit Shah said, "What happened in the Parliament today is historic". He also said that there shouldn't be any delay in scrapping Article 370.
"I strongly condemn the act of two or three members of Parliament (to tear copies of Constitution), none were from our party. We stand by the Constitution of India," Leader of the Opposition and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said.
Jammu and Kashmir to be made a Union Territory, Ladakh to be Union Territory without legislature.
Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 2019
Uproar in Rajya Sabha after resolution revoking Article 370 from J&K moved by Home Minister Amit Shah.
Union Minister Amit Shah proposes revocation of Article 370 and Article 35A.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah says that the Bill to be laid in the House also concerns the state of Kashmir. "I will answer all your question regarding Kashmir," Shah said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah rises to speak but is interjected by Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad. He says discussion on the ongoing Kashmir issue should be taken first. "Entire part of the J&K is under curfew, top leaders of the state are under house arrest," Azad said.
The government's silence on Jammu and Kashmir is "criminal", PDP MPs Nazir Ahmad Laway and Mir Mohammad Fayaz said as they appealed to opposition parties for support in demanding an explanation from the government on the Kashmir issue.
In a letter written to opposition members, the MPs said that they wanted to highlight the plight of common citizens of the state. (PTI)
PM Modi arrives at the Parliament.
Leaders of Opposition parties on Monday met in Parliament complex to discuss the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Opposition parties have also given adjournment notices in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to discuss the Kashmir issue in the wake of heightened tensions in the border state. Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad met leaders of various parties in his office in Parliament and discussed the situation with them. Leaders of political parties including the CPI, CPI(M), RJD, AAP, TMC, DMK attended the meeting.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address the Rajya Sabha on the ongoing Kashmir crisis today at 11 am.
Congress MPs Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Ambika Soni, and Bhubaneswar Kalita have given Adjournment Motion notice in Rajya Sabha, over Kashmir issue.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will speak in the Rajya Sabha at 11 am and in Lok Sabha at 12 pm today. He is likely to address the Kashmir issue.
Welcome to The Indian Express' live blog of the Parliament. The clampdown in Kashmir is likely to echo in Parliament today with several Congress MPs giving an Adjournment Motion notice in the Lok Sabha.