Article 370 hearing: NC, PDP ‘hopeful of getting justice’ from Supreme Court
The HinduJammu and Kashmir’s key regional parties, the National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party, on Wednesday reposed “full faith in the judiciary” and sounded hopeful about the restoration of the special constitutional position of J&K, as the Supreme Court hears the petitions challenging the reading down of Article 370 in 2019. “Restoring the bond between J&K and Republic of India, which are provisions of Article 370, will also act as a reconciliatory measure to normalise relationships with our neighbours too. He said the scrapping of Article 370 meant “unpeopling a State”, who would not count in any decision taken about them, and destroying the constitutional scheme of the Republic. Tarigami said the proposed J&K Reorganisation Amendment Bill, allowing reservation of seats for Kashmiri Pandits and migrants from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir was being introduced in the Parliament “at a time when the SC has begun hearing a clutch of petitions filed by the CPI and other petitioners, challenging the J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019 itself”.