Keypoints:
- The Lok Sabha passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2021, replacing the ordinance.
- The government is implementing different development projects and schemes in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Amit Shah promises the house that Jammu and Kashmir will get statehood at the right time.
On Saturday, the Lok Sabha passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill, 2021 with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah promising to provide the statehood to Jammu and Kashmir at the right point of time. While speaking in favour of the bill, Shah said that the opposition should not politicise J&K and Ladakh.
“If you want a political fight, come in the ring and let’s compete. Nobody is scared. It J&K and Ladakh) is a sensitive part of our country. They have been hurt and have doubts. This House’s responsibility is to comfort them, not scrape their wounds”, Shah said.
“I have said in this House and I say it again that this Bill has got nothing to do with the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir. Statehood would be given to Jammu and Kashmir at an appropriate time,” Amit Shah said on Saturday, adding that the Bill nowhere says J&K will not get statehood.
On Saturday, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill was introduced to replace an ordinance to merge the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) cadre of civil services officers with the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre.
Introducing ‘The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2021’, Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said the government was working to take Jammu and Kashmir on the path to development.
The bill looks to merge the Jammu and Kashmir cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS), and Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officers with that of the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and Union Territory (AGMUT).
Having an objection for the bill, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury asked, “What was the need to bring an ordinance for this?”
He said regularly promulgating an ordinance is not good for a parliamentary democracy as an ordinance should be preceded by an emergency situation or any urgency.”Our point of contention is loud and clear,” he said, adding after abrogating Article 370, the government showed a “dream” to the people that they would “make heaven” in Jammu and Kashmir and create jobs there.
