Article 370 has been used with surgical precision by the governments to gradually and decisively eradicate the Kashmiri Hindu population.

Article 370 has been used with surgical precision by the governments to gradually and decisively eradicate the Kashmiri Hindu population.

Article 370 made Jammu and Kashmir a country within a country, with its own flag, emblem, constitution and Sadr-i-Riyasat (Prime Minister) Thanks to the sacrifice Shyama Prasad mukherjee,We r not having PM at present.Is there any such state in whole India?

This Article specified that except for Defence, Foreign Affairs and Communications, the Indian Parliament needed the State Government's concurrence for applying such laws to JK as did not fall under the heads of Defence, Foreign Affairs and Communications.

Parliamentary laws pertaining to these three subjects required consultation with the J&K State Government.

Is there any such state in India?

Over the years, this procedure was followed to bring the state under the purview of Article 356, the Supreme Court, the Election Commission, the Comptroller and Auditor General, thus providing some level of order in the state. However, much else was left to the whim of the state rulers.

Taking full advantage of Article 370, the National Conference government, first led by Sheikh Abdullah, then by others, perpetuated the archaic, exclusionary and highly discriminatory rule known as the State Subject law. In 1890, the then Maharajah had instituted a law disallowing outsiders from owning land and property in the state. This law was further strengthened in 1927. The law made sense in those days, since it was meant to prevent the colonial British from establishing their presence in the state.

In 1947 and later, however, this rule has been used with surgical precision by the National Conference governments to gradually and decisively eradicate the Kashmiri Hindu population. Many of this community had already moved out in the decades and centuries before 1947, and now with full religious and political freedom and opportunities in the rest of India contrasting with severe oppression in the valley, many Kashmiri Hindus, especially young men, started moving out of the valley.

adding to that comment,"Not only the minorities of the state, but the entire state’s economic progress has been adversely affected by this uniquely retrogressive law. The same law that has dispossessed thousands of Kashmiri pandits and thousands of poonchis from poonch of their ancestral homeland has also acted as a hindrance to the entry of industry and technological advancement into the state from the rest of India. 

It wasn’t the militancy alone, but the same State Subject law applicable under Article 370, that prevented the revival of the Indian economy to filter into the state. And without the influence of the rest of India, the fundamentalist malaise has grown unabated in parallel with the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan."