Parliament Winter Session: Amid the continued Winter Session of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha on Monday handed the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023, and Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 unanimously with a voice vote.
The payments would amend key legal guidelines within the Union Territory geared toward offering “rights to those who faced injustice”. Both payments have been handed amid a number of Opposition leaders elevating points to reinstate the statehood of the erstwhile state and announce elections there. Last week, each payments have been handed by the Lok Sabha.
Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 geared toward offering “rights to those who faced injustice” and have been disadvantaged of their rights within the Union Territory. The Bills have been collectively mentioned a couple of hours after the Supreme Court handed a judgement upholding the constitutional validity of the Executive Order abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution and scrapping statehood for Jammu and Kashmir.Â
J-KÂ Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023
The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 is geared toward amending the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004. The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004 offered reservation in jobs and admission in skilled establishments to Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), and different socially and educationally backward lessons.Â
J-KÂ Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023
The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 seeks to amend the 2019 Act and present illustration within the Legislative Assembly to the Kashmiri Migrants and displaced individuals from the PoK. It seeks to appoint two members from the Kashmiri migrant group and one particular person representing the displaced individuals from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to the Legislative Assembly. The amended invoice proposes to extend the variety of seats within the Legislative Assembly to 90 from 83.
The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 seeks to order seats for the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. It seeks to insert new sections 15A and 15B within the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 for the Lieutenant Governor to appoint no more than two members, certainly one of whom shall be a lady, from the group of “Kashmiri Migrants” and one Member from “Displaced Persons from Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir”, to the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.
Shah in Rajya Sabha
Speaking within the Rajya Sabha on the 2 Jammu and Kashmir Bills, Union Minister Amit Shah mentioned this is a vital day as each these Bills will probably be handed and additionally as a result of this will probably be written in golden letters within the historical past of Jammu and Kashmir and India.
“Today, the Supreme Court upheld the intention behind the Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Bill, 2019, its constitutional validity and the process,” Shah mentioned, including one of many Bills seeks to symbolize those that turned refugees in their very own nation and additionally reserves one seat within the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for individuals who have been displaced from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Amit Shah tagets NehruÂ
During his speech in Rajya Sabha, Shah as soon as once more focused former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and blamed him for Pakistan’s unlawful occupation of a portion of Kashmir, often known as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). “Jahan tak tang nazariye ka sawaal hai, desh ki ek bhi inch zameen ka sawaal hai, humara nazariya tang rahega, hum dil bada nahi kar sakte. No one has the right to give away a section of our land to show off their big heart,” Shah mentioned. Shah additionally gave a reference to Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and mentioned that it was resulting from Sardar Patel’s intervention that the Indian Army was despatched when Kashmir was being invaded by the Pakistanis.
(With inputs from ANI)
