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JAMMU: Peoples Conference MLA Sajad Lone’s amendments for restoration of Article 370, Article 35-A and J&K’s statehood successful lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha’s code to the assembly’s fund league were rejected connected Tuesday amid bedlam implicit respective issues, chiefly BJP’s demands for a National Law University (NLU) successful Jammu.Sinha’s code astatine the commencement of the league connected Monday did not notation the 2 matters. Rejecting the amendments, Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather of the governing National Conference (NC) told Lone the House had already passed a solution connected peculiar presumption successful its archetypal league successful Nov 2024 and rules bash not licence further discussions connected an contented already debated.The Speaker further pointed retired that granting statehood falls wrong the domain of the Centre and advised Lone to rise lone those issues connected which J&K govt is competent to respond oregon instrumentality a decision.Outside the assembly, Lone said 4 of his different amendments were, however, accepted, including those concerning regular wagers, NLU and condemnation of attacks connected Kashmiris extracurricular J&K.Lone dismissed arsenic “theatrics” protests extracurricular the assembly by NC MLAs for statehood and peculiar status. “History volition work what was said and decided wrong the House,” Lone said. NCP MLA Mubarak Gul asserted the demands volition beryllium raised successful the House during this session.
The NLU enactment continued to polarise the House, with Lone citing main curate Omar Abdullah’s assurance. J&K has nary NLU astatine contiguous but the request for it to beryllium located successful Jammu gained traction aft Omar said past twelvemonth that it would travel up successful Kashmir’s Budgam. Omar has rejected BJP’s demands connected NLU, calling them “politically motivated” and pointing retired that determination were nary protests successful the Valley erstwhile Jammu was fixed some an IIT and an IIM.As House proceedings started connected Tuesday, BJP MLAs renewed the NLU demand, portion NC and PDP legislators took up the contented of alleged harassment of Kashmiri Muslims extracurricular J&K.BJP’s Surjit Singh Slathia pointed retired that students are demonstrating connected streets for the NLU to beryllium based successful Jammu and his enactment stands with them. Another BJP MLA, Balwant Singh Mankotia, argued that Jammu would beryllium a amended determination for NLU successful presumption of security, upwind and roadworthy connectivity.NC MLAs highlighted the alleged harassment of Kashmiris successful assorted parts of the state and were joined by immoderate lawmakers of absorption PDP. “I enactment the cause, not NC,” PDP MLA Muntazir Mehdi clarified.PDP’s Waheed-ur-Rehman Para moved an adjournment question to sermon alleged attacks connected Kashmiris, arguing they were “hate crimes”. Speaker Rather rejected the move. He said the Omar-led govt has taken up the contented with assorted states and is thankful to Pushkar Singh Dhami, CM of BJP-governed Uttrakhand, for taking enactment precocious successful 1 specified case.
