{"id":314458,"date":"2019-08-05T06:50:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314458"},"modified":"2019-08-05T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:57:09","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-ladakh-to-be-separate-union-territories-says-amit-shah-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-ladakh-to-be-separate-union-territories-says-amit-shah-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh to be separate Union Territories, says Amit Shah in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-ladakh-to-be-separate-union-territories-says-amit-shah-in-parliament\/shah-in-rajya-sabha\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-314462\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-314462 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shah-in-rajya-sabha-300x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/shah-in-rajya-sabha-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/shah-in-rajya-sabha-696x419.png 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/shah-in-rajya-sabha-698x420.png 698w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/shah-in-rajya-sabha.png 755w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday tabled a draft resolution in Parliament seeking creation of union territory of Ladakh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The government has decided to bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories &#8211; Jammu and Kashmir which will have a separate legislature, and Ladakh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-314460 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sts-of-object-and-resaosns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/sts-of-object-and-resaosns.jpg 537w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/sts-of-object-and-resaosns-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/sts-of-object-and-resaosns-516x420.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Kashmir and Jammu division will be separate Union Territory with legislature,&#8221; Shah announced in Rajya Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Shah proposed to remove Article 370 that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti took to her twitter account and tweeted, \u201cToday marks the darkest day in Indian democracy. Decision of J&amp;K leadership to reject 2 nation theory in 1947 &amp; align with India has backfired. Unilateral decision of GOI to scrap Article 370 is illegal &amp; unconstitutional which will make India an occupational force in J&amp;K.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPeople like us who placed faith in Parliament, the temple of democracy have been deceived. Those elements in J&amp;K who rejected the constitution &amp; sought resolution under the UN have been vindicated. This will exacerbate the alienation Kashmiris feel,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday tabled a draft resolution in Parliament seeking creation of union territory of Ladakh. The government has decided to bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories &#8211; Jammu and Kashmir which will have a separate legislature, and Ladakh. &#8220;Kashmir and Jammu division will be separate Union Territory with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1194,3350,1141,1694,898,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314464,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314458\/revisions\/314464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}