Jammu and Kashmir first assembly session in 6years
After the Speaker’s election, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha will address the House.
Bharatiya Janata Party lawmakers resisted Mr Parra’s resolution, even as the Speaker, Rahim Rather of the ruling National Conference, said he had not yet admitted any such motion.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah – who earlier said it would be “foolish” to expect the BJP to restore Article 370 – said he knew a resolution to this effect was coming, and said, “The reality is that the people of J&K do not approve of the decision taken on August 5, 2019. If they had approved, then the results today would have been different.”
The J&K Assembly held its first sitting in six years.
There was ruckus in the newly elected Jammu and Kashmir Monday morning – as it held its first sitting in six years – after People’s Democratic Party lawmaker Wahid Parra tabled a resolution against the scrapping of Article 370 in August 2019.
Bharatiya Janata Party lawmakers resisted Mr Parra’s resolution, even as the Speaker, Rahim Rather of the ruling National Conference, said he had not yet admitted any such motion.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah – who earlier said it would be “foolish” to expect the BJP to restore Article 370 – said he knew a resolution to this effect was coming, and said, “The reality is that the people of J&K do not approve of the decision taken on August 5, 2019. If they had approved, then the results today would have been different.”
“How the House will reflect and discuss this will not be decided by any one member. The resolution brought today has no importance but it is only for the cameras. If there was a purpose behind it, then they would have discussed this with us before…”
The BJP-led centre revoked Article 370 five years ago, in a contentious move marked by furious protests from political parties and politicians in Jammu and the Kashmir Valley
