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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will move in Lok Sabha the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill 2019, The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Second Amendment) Bill 2019 and the resolution revoking Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir in Lok Sabha. Read more

Top government sources said the experience of Modi’s first term when he had to encounter intense “obstructionism”, especially towards the later phase of the innings, served as a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of leaving it late. Read more

Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale on Monday met envoys of key countries, including the US, China, UK, France and Russia, to explain India’s rationale. Foreign minister S Jaishankar laid the groundwork last week by sensitising US secretary of state Mike Pompeo during his meeting in Bangkok. Monday’s decision, therefore, was not a surprise to Washington. Read more

The actual plan remained a secret even to senior members of the government. Soon after the inauguration of the second Modi government, a senior functionary received an innocuous query about the type of paper used for presidential orders. Read more

Even as it was widely believed that Article 370 could be “scrapped” only by a Constitution amendment bill needing a two-thirds majority. It did so by using a provision in Article 370 itself even as it fully anticipates that the presidential notification will be challenged in the Supreme Court. Read more

Describing the revoking of Article 370 as a "black day" in the country's constitutional history, the Congress on Monday alleged that the government "dismembered" Jammu and Kashmir by "mischievously misinterpreting" articles in the Constitution. However, few Congress leaders took a different stand than the party's and supported the BJP government on Article 370. Read more