Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 29: Disputing the assertion of the Pradesh Congress pesident, Prof Saif –ud–Din-Soz that even the Parliament cannot revoke the Article 370 of the Constitution granting separate status to J&K , the former Union Minister and MLA, Prof Chaman Lal Gupta has observed that on the very face of it this Article is a “temporary provision”, but it was unfortunate that politicians like Prof Soz under communal considerations are misleading their constituency and harming the interests of the country as also those of the people.
In a statement, Prof Gupta said that the Parliament is the supreme body of the country. It can amend or revoke any Article except that the basic principles and the only provision pertaining to the frontiers of the country. As far as the Article 370 is concerned even in the Constitution it has been inserted as “temporary provision”. It is unfortunate that it still existed even after over six decades but for the communal considerations and the problems being created by men like Prof Soz and some others.
He pointed out that over the period the Parliament had amended over hundred provisions and can remove even this one which is of course temporary one.
Prof Gupta said the Article 370 has done no good to the people of the State. This provided unbridled powers to the ruling clan who had played havoc with the democratic rights of the people. Their wrongs created resentment which is being exploited by the elements hostile to India including Pakistan.
If the democratic process was allowed to flourish like other parts of the country, then there had been no problem like secessionism, terrorism and above all the politicians of the State to have the capacity to blackmail the country, he alleged and maintained that it was in the interest of the nation as a whole and more so, the masses of J&K that this obnoxious provision is done away with.
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