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A State Downgraded, a Promise Pending: The Renewed Demand to Restore Jammu and Kashmir

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Leaders of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference have renewed the demand that the Centre introduce and pass a bill restoring statehood to Jammu and Kashmir during the ongoing session of Parliament, days after the party's leadership, including the Chief Minister, protested at Jantar Mantar over statehood and constitutional guarantees. Jammu and Kashmir was reorganised into two Union Territories — Jammu and Kashmir with a legislature and Ladakh without one — by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, in an unprecedented downgrade of a full state to Union Territory status. Both the Union government, in submissions to the Supreme Court, and the Court itself in its 2023 judgment upholding the abrogation of Article 370, described the Union Territory status as temporary and statehood as due for restoration. An elected government has functioned in the Union Territory since assembly elections, yet the restoration of full statehood, and with it the powers the reorganisation withdrew, remains outstanding.

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Q1. Under which constitutional provision may Parliament restore statehood to a Union Territory such as Jammu and Kashmir?

AArticle 370, by reviving the special status abrogated in 2019.
BArticle 3, which empowers Parliament by law to form new states and alter the status and boundaries of existing states and territories.
CArticle 356, by ending President's Rule in the territory.
DArticle 368, requiring a constitutional amendment ratified by half the states.
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Q2. Jammu and Kashmir currently has an elected assembly and a Chief Minister, yet its leaders describe the demand for statehood as a demand for the restoration of powers. Which one of the following best explains this?

AThe territory has no elected assembly, so statehood would create one for the first time.
BAs a Union Territory with a legislature, its Lieutenant Governor holds wider powers than a state Governor, and the Union retains control over subjects such as police and public order that a full state would exercise.
CStatehood would transfer control of defence and foreign affairs to the territory.
DThe elected government already controls police and public order, so the demand is purely symbolic.
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Q3. Consider the following statements about the reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir: 1. The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 converted the former state into two Union Territories, Jammu and Kashmir with a legislature and Ladakh without one. 2. The conversion of a full state into Union Territories reversed the usual direction of Indian federal reorganisation, which has overwhelmingly created states and enlarged self-government. 3. The Supreme Court, in its 2023 judgment, directed that Jammu and Kashmir must remain a Union Territory permanently and ruled out any restoration of statehood. Which of the statements given above are correct?

A1 and 2 only
B1 only
C2 and 3 only
D1, 2 and 3
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