NEW DELHI – India’s ruling BJP revokes special status of Occupied Kashmirunder Indian constitution
India’s ruling party on Monday introduced a measure in parliament to revokethe special constitutional status of occupied Kashmir.
If the special status is repealed, people from the rest of India would havethe right to acquire property in occupied Kashmir and settle therepermanently. Kashmiris fear this would lead to a demographic transformationof region from majority Muslim to majority Hindu.
As parliament debated the move, Indian media reported that the governmenthas moved 8,000 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) from different parts ofthe country to IoK.
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The move by India’s Hindu nationalist-led government, Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) to revoke the special constitutional status, which allows onlyresidents to buy property and hold state government jobs, is the mostfar-reaching move on the disputed Himalayan region in nearly seven decades.
Chaos erupted in the upper house of the Indian parliament as oppositionlawmakers shouted slogans and started protesting after Home Minister AmitShah urged members to discuss the legislation that seeks to end theautonomous status for Muslim-majority Kashmir.
