Attacking the government in Rajya Sabha, former Union Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday said by repealing Article 370 of the Constitution, the government has committed a "cardinal blunder", a "fatal legal error".
The former union minister said he strongly feared that by dismembering Jammu & Kashmir, BJP was pushing thousands of youth towards violence.
Article 370 of the constitution gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
Terming scrapping of the Article 370 as a "black day in the history of India, Chidambaram said: "Momentarily you may think you have scored a victory...drum beats on streets may force you to think that you have corrected a so called injustice but history will prove you.... Future generations will realise what a grave mistake this House is making today."
"In fact overwhelming majority wants more autonomy and no cessation from India. I genuinely fear you are pushing thousands and thousands of young men from this column to 100 others by dismembering the state."
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