Donald Trump supplied a quick trigger for J&K

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  • The Union government’s moves to extend all provisions of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir, stripping away certain special privileges of the State and reorganising it into two Union Territories, were dictated by domestic and international situations.
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  • Trump remark on J&K acted as trigger:
    (1) According to senior sources in the government, the BJP’s ideological imperative of doing away with Article 370 has been always there.
    (2) The impetus for it was provided first by Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s determination to change the status quo in the State and also events in the past two weeks, after U.S. President Donald Trump publicly said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had approached him to play mediator for the dispute in the State.
  • Government position on Trump remark:
    (1) The Union government denied any such conversation with Mr. Trump.
    (2) But the realisation in government circles was to do something that would demonstrate that it was irrevocably opposed to U.S. mediation
    (3) It was, however, Mr. Trump’s statement that added a certain urgency to the matter.
Source
The Hindu




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 6th Aug 2019
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