Historic day for India, Jammu and Kashmir special status consigned to dustbin

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Jammu and Kashmir's special status is a part of history now with the central government on Monday scrapping Article 370 and Article 35 (A). Union Home Minister informed Parliament that Article 370 was scrapped through Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order 2019, signed by President Ram Nath Kovind.

Jammu and Kashmir would also be bifurcated into two parts. While Jammu and Kashmir will be a Union Territory with a legislature, Ladakh has been separated from the state and will be given the status of a Union Territory without a legislature.

Here  is the full text of notification scrapping Article 370, signed by the President:

THE CONSTITUTION (APPLICATION TO JAMMU AND KASHMIR) ORDER, 2019 
C.0.272 
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 370 of the Constitution, the President, with the concurrence of the Government of State of Jammu and Kashmir, is pleased to make the following Order.—
1. (1)This Order may be called the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 2019.
   (2) It shall come into force at once, and shall thereupon supersede the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954 as amended from time to time. 
2. All the provisions of the Constitution, as amended from time to time, shall apply in relation to the State of Jammu and Kashmir and the exceptions and modifications subject to which they shall so apply shall be as follows:-
To article 367, there shall be added the following clause, namely:— 
"(4) For the purposes of this Constitution as it applies in relation to the State of Jammu and Kashmir—
(a) references to this Constitution or to the provisions thereof shall be construed as references to the Constitution or the provisions thereof as applied in relation to the said State
(b) references to the person for the time being recognized by the President on the recommendation of the Legislative Assembly of the State as the Sadar-i-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir, acting on the advice of the Council of Ministers of the State for the time being in office, shall be construed as references to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir: 
(c) references to the Government of the said State shall be construed as including references to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir acting on the advice of his Council of Ministers: and 
(d) in proviso to clause (3) of Article 370 of this Constitution, the expression "Constituent Assembly of the State referred to in clause (2)" shall read "Legislative Assembly of the State"." 

RAM NATH KOVIND. 
President.