The Constitution's Article 370, which gave Jammu and Kashmir its special status, had "led to separatism", Union Home Minister Amit Shah told Rajya Sabha today, hours after the Supreme Court backed the Centre's move to scrap the Article four years ago.
"Stone-pelting cases have come down because we brought a rule that if anyone has a stone-pelting case against them, no one from their family would be eligible for a government job," he said. The government, he added, has handed young people laptops to young people who were carrying stones. "We are close to a terrorism-free Kashmir," he said.
