SC to consider urgent hearing of PIL against J&K special status
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IBNS): Supreme Court will consider the plea seeking urgent hearing of a PIL challenging the constitutional validity of Article 370 that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir and limits Parliament's power to make laws for the state.
BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay submitted the plea to which the court said: "Give the mentioning memo to the registrar. We will see it."
According to The Times of India, Upadhyay contends that the special status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir at the time of the framing of the Constitution was temporary and that it lapsed with the dissolution of the state's constituent assembly on January 26, 1957.
The plea also contends that the separate constitution for Jammu and Kashmir goes against "supremacy of the Constitution of India and contrary to the dictum of 'One Nation, One Constitution, One National Anthem, One National Flag'".
The Jammu and Kashmir constitution is invalid because it does not have the approval of the President of India, which is mandatory according to the Constitution of India, the plea argues.
The plea is likely to come up for hearing next week, the report added.
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