Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 7: J&K National Panthers Party (JKNPP) today demanded that statehood should be restored to the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Talking to the media here today Prof Bhim Singh announced that the Panthers Party shall be holding an urgent meeting of the senior working committee members tomorrow ( June 8) at 12.30 p.m. in Gandhi Nagar, Jammu office, where in Party shall convey to the Union of India that people/residents of J&K and Ladakh are one in their demand that statehood should be returned to Jammu and Kashmir without any fail or delay.
Bhim Singh reminded Prime Minister, Narendra Modi that he himself had announced in Parliament on August 8, 2019 that statehood of J&K shall be returned at the earliest. He reminded the Prime Minister that two years are over and there is no hope that the residents of J&K and Ladakh shall get the benefit of the Constitution of India as is available to all citizens of India particularly in Chapter-III of Fundamental Rights.
NPP leader further said that the removal of Article 370 was unconstitutional and against the spirit of law and commitment of the Constitution as the Constituent Assembly of India had approved the provision that the Instrument of Accession signed by Maharaja Hari Singh shall remain in tact within the meaning and scope of Section 3 & 4 of Article 370.
Bhim Singh said that Instrument of Accession has not been applied in accordance with the Constitution and the dictates of the Constituent Assembly of India. He said all Members of Parliament should understand that the Constitution of India when applied to the Union of India on January 26, 1950 there were only 575 princely states or provinces that were declared merged into the Union of India. He reminded the Parliament of India that J&K was not included into the Union of India. The Maharaja of J&K remained the Head of J&K. J&K remained an independent state when a so-called J&K political committee under Sheikh Abdullah’s leadership declared Maharaja Hari Singh dismissed on August 20, 1952. Under the compulsion Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru got Dr Karan Singh appointed as a State President.
Bhim Singh said that the Parliament had not even touched the existence of Instrument of Accession. There are several issues which have not been settled according to the law relating to the Instrument of Accession. He said NPP shall take up the first issue, restoration of statehood to J&K immediately. It shall fight for holding immediate elections and then delimitation of constituencies under the control of the elected Assembly of J&K.
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