02/08/2020
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Stand with Jammu & Kashmir: An Year Since the Abrogation of Article 370.
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We get a bleak picture of what people of Kashmir has gone through since the state was put to stringent and ceaseless lockdown from 5th August 2019. The same day, the Central Government had abolished the statehood and special status of Jammu and Kashmir. People's lives have been put to widespread human rights violation, and they have gravely suffered from the worsened social, economic and administrative stagnancy in the post-lockdown state. We've heard the stories of brutal state violence amid the fascistic slaps on the local press.
It will be unfaithful to read the abrogation of article 370 as a step taken for the state reorganization disregarding the history of volatility in the region that brought the provision in the first place, of war and massacres in late years of British rule, Instrument of Access and the formation of J&K Constituent Assembly etc which followed in the 1950s. For people of Kashmir as well as different political camps in the state, these nullified measures are diversely meant as autonomy, dignity and rights. Nevertheless, the abrogation of the same had great symbolic significance, and was predicted to impact in alleviating the differences among them bringing relevant political shifts in the state.
New policy legislations and central laws are hastily made applicable to the divided territories of Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh, to formally dissolve whatever protections availed by people as permanent residents of the former, special status state.
Panellists shall prefer talking on theses broad themes:
1. Life, rights and people's resistance post-abrogation.
2. Socio-political impacts of new legislations
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