Srinagar: Two former Chief Ministers of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and CPI(M) senior leader have welcomed SC’s decision of hearing the petitions.
National Conference leader and former CM Omar Abdullah on Monday said he is looking forward to the Supreme Court hearing petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370.
“Finally the bench is constituted. I look forward to the hearings beginning in right earnest now,” Abdullah said in a tweet.
PDP chief and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti also welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to list for hearing petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370.
“Welcome Hon’ble SC’s decision to finally hear petitions pending since 2019 challenging the illegal abrogation of Article 370. I hope justice is upheld and delivered for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The SC ruling on Article 370 maintained that the provision can be abrogated only on the recommendation of the Jammu and Kashmir Constituent Assembly,” Mufti said in a tweet.
While hoping that the unilateral decision taken on August 5, 2019 is rolled back and justice delivered, CPI(M) senior leader, M Y Tarigami said that the “move was an assault on the constitutional order and was taken without the consent of the people.”
“Welcoming the decision of the constitutional bench, albeit delayed, to take up a clutch of petitions challenging the abrogation of article 370 & division of the historic state,” Tarigami tweeted.
