Former MP BJP while targeting the opposition during a press conference held on Thursday blamed the opposition INDIA bloc after a ruckus was created in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly over Article 370.
Irani addressed the journalists after a ruckus broke out in the assembly when Khurshid Ahmad Sheikh, an Awami Ittehad Party MLA and brother of Engineer Rashid, unfurled a banner supporting the return of Article 370. Such aggressive protests the opposition provoked the Speaker to adjourned the house briefly while BJP members responded to favour recent passed resolution for special status for Jammu and Kashmir.
BJP members raised a Numbers of banners More Benches on the assembly floor behavioral disturbances over the specific direction of the resolution to Centre for a constitutional framework to restore the special status of the region.
Article 370 which was abrogated in 2019 will not be restored,” affirmed Irani in confirming BJP’s position. She said that aggression from the INDIA alliance to ‘capture’ Jammu and Kashmir from India was meaningless.
The resolution that was mentioned by Irani had proposed by Surinder Choudhary, the deputy chief minister & National conference and called upon the Government of India to talk to the elected representatives for restoration of the special status. The opposition by BJP members was very vocal, as they condemned the motion using their words in the assembly.
He also questioned Congress and INDIA bloc leadership on the status of the tribal people of the J & K after the removal of Article 370. “That was good seen in yesterday’s resolution; Congress and the INDIA alliance in particular has tactfully supported extremism and terrorism,” she stated.
Labelling assembly’s move as an attack on the minorities, women and the lower castes, Irani said “BJP and the people of India will not allow the Constitution to be subverted.” She said that, scenes in Jammu and Kashmir are, in fact, blow to the constitutional rights of Dalits, tribals, and women, and further stated its commitment to unity and constitutionalism of the country.
