Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 16: Former Minister and MLA Udhampur today asked BJP to come clean on the statement of Finance Minister, Haseeb Drabu who has said “J&K is much larger issue, a constitutional issue, which hasn’t been settled yet”.
In a statement issued here today, Gupta termed the statement of Drabu as figured in a section of the press as sheer disrespect to the Constitution of India and J&K State. The Indian Independence Act 1947, authorized the accession of the princely states by the respective rulers which on the same format was executed by the Mahraja on October 26, 1947 and duly accepted by the Governor General of India unconditionally, he added.
He said based on it the State became integral part of India under Article 1 of the Constitution of India as well as Article 370 also relying on the same Instrument of Accession. The J&K State became integral part of India again rectifying the Instrument of Accession as per the preamble of the State Constitution and its Section 3 further affirms that the J&K State is and shall remain integral part of India which is firm and is inalienable in terms of unanimous decision of the State Constituent Assembly.
Gupta said the statement of Drabu is seditious in nature and amounts contemptuous to both India and State Constitutions. Issuing of such irresponsible and anti-national statements by a Constitutional functionary especially holding ministerial berth while toeing with the view of Pakistani State amounts to tramping upon Constitutional propriety. The propriety demands his voluntarily resignation both from his portfolio and Assembly seat, he added.
The PDP should also distance itself from the Statement of Drabu, said Gupta, adding that in case the Party endorses the same it becomes imperative for the Government of India to dismiss the present coalition Government and impose the Governor rule by invoking Section 92 of the State Constitution to a void further breach of Constitutional functioning and letting the State functionaries to indulge in spreading separatists activities in the State.
The BJP which is part and parcel of the State Government owes answer to the nation as to whether it stands for its ideology so opted since the time of 1952 for abrogation of Article 370 or it endorses the statement of Drabu purporting disputed status of J&K State and challenging the Constitutional validity if its integration with Indian Union, Gupta said.
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