Indian paramilitary troopers stand guard at a roadblock at Maisuma locality in summer capital Srinagar on August 4, 2019. Some 40,000 fresh troops were reportedly deployed in addition to 500,000 already in the disputed region.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Home Minister Amit Shah told members of the upper house that the government has also decided to split the disputed region into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir, which will have a legislature, and Ladakh, which will be ruled directly by the central government without a legislature of its own.
The article came into being in 1954 by a presidential order under the constitution's Article 370, which grants special autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir state. Pakistan condemned India's "illegal steps" and said that Islamabad will "exercise all possible options" regarding New Delhi's decision.TRT World'sA 1927 order by the administration of the independent princely state of Jammu and Kashmir gave the state's subjects exclusive hereditary rights.
Further discussions culminated in the 1952 Delhi Agreement, a presidential order that extended Indian citizenship to the residents of the state but left the maharaja's privileges for residents intact.
Universities, schools, and colleges in southern Hindu-dominated Jammu were ordered to be shut, and one district in that region was placed under lockdown.
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