New Delhi: Bhimrao Ambedkar, the architect of Indian Structure, had declined to draft the now nullified Article 370 that gave particular standing to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&Okay), Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar mentioned Thursday.
“Personally, for the final 20 years, I had been advocating abrogation of Article 35A & 370. These had been short-term provisions in our Structure however lasted for 70 years. We’re comfortable it’s not there now,” Dhankhar mentioned, addressing the particular convocation of College of Jammu, in Jammu metropolis.
The trail of exceptional development & improvement trajectory, that J&Okay has charted following abrogation of Article 370 & 35-A is a testomony to the imaginative and prescient of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, who gave his life for it.
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“And the slogan that Syama Prasad Mookerjee gave, ‘Ek desh mein do vidhan, do nishan, do pradhan nahi chalenge’. Ab nahi chalte hain. (Two PMs, two Constitutions and two flags in a single nation aren’t acceptable. Now they aren’t there anymore)’. The trail of exceptional development and improvement that J&Okay has launched into after the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A in August 2019 is a testomony to the foresight of Mookerjee who gave his life for it,” he mentioned.
The Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder had died in detention in Srinagar in 1953 after he entered the erstwhile state with out acquiring a allow. One of many key points flagged by Mookerjee was a separate flag of the erstwhile state.
The area’s “integration into the nationwide mainstream” has paved the best way for funding, improvement and improved governance, Dhankhar mentioned in his first go to to the Union Territory after turning into the vice-president in August 2022.
Calling the G-20 tourism assembly which Srinagar hosted in Could successful, he mentioned the world has vigorously loved it. “It’s a second of satisfaction for us,” the vice-president added.
“On this area, we now have a prevalence of harmonious environment that was by no means there. It’s the best homage to Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who laid down his life for constructing a powerful and united India,” Dhankhar mentioned on the eve of the seventieth demise anniversary of Mookerjee.
“He had died as a detainee in a Srinagar jail on this (twenty third June) day in 1953. He died inside days of being arrested at Lakhanpur (border). Why? He challenged saying, ‘When India is a rustic, why would I undergo restriction?’ He ventured within the true spirit for constitutionalism and was detained. We now have realised his dream. And now Indians can journey freely in their very own nation and on this half,” the vice-president added.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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