The Article defines the state's permanent residents and their privileges
Mufti asked her party workers to get ready for a big fight for the protection of Article 35A, which gives special rights and privileges to the state's permanent residents
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah Saturday said annulling Articles 370 and 35-A will tantamount to a constitutional coup. He asserted that Article 370 is essential and unassailable until a final resolution of the issue of Jammu and Kashmir is reached. "Keeping in view the special circumstances (at the time of accession of J&K to India), Article 370 was added to the Constitution of India. The Article will remain as it is until the final resolution of the issue of Jammu and Kashmir is not reached to," Abdullah said addressing a party convention in Handwara area of Kupwara district. "So until the issue is solved, no power on earth can touch the article 370. The uneducated rants of those who want to obliterate Article 370 are far-fetched, fanciful and devoid of any genuineness," the former chief minister added. Referring to Article 35-A, the NC chief said that the special provision was the fallout of Article 370 and fiddling with it will upset all the successive amendments
No investor is willing to set up an industry, hotel, private educational institutions or private hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir, says Arun Jaitley.
The Article was incorporated in the Constitution in 1954 by an order of President Rajendra Prasad on the advice of the then Cabinet headed by Jawaharlal Nehru
All shops, public transport, other businesses and educational institutions remained closed in Srinagar and other places in the valley
The official said security forces are on the job to control the situation
The court said the three judge bench needed to determine whether these matters were required to be referred to a five-judge Constitution bench
The apex court has listed the matter for hearing in the week commencing August 27
The State government had on Friday moved an application before the top court and sought to defer the hearing of the case, citing upcoming panchayat and urban local body elections
People will lose jobs and scholarships not only in the valley but also in Jammu and Ladakh: Abdullah