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Abolition of Article 370: Earlier provisions of law impeded J&K’s development, says External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar
It's been more than a month since the government abrogated Article 370 and 35A in Jammu and Kashmir. CNBC's Martin Soon caught up with S Jaishankar, India's external affairs minister and spoke to him on the current situation in the valley, the decision to repeal Article 370 and more.
It's been more than a month since the government abrogated Article 370 and 35A in Jammu and Kashmir. CNBC's Martin Soon caught up with S Jaishankar, India's external affairs minister and spoke to him on the current situation in the valley, the decision to repeal Article 370 and more.
"The earlier provision of law impeded entrepreneurship, development, progress, governance in that state because they had provisions which mandated local ownership of different kinds and these raised the cost of business. This created a culture where funds send for development were not reaching the place, the quality of governance was not good," Jaishankar said.
“Most importantly, a lot of laws that the rest of the country was following – economic laws, social laws were not being applied to that state. Women’s rights, child protection, issues like affirmative action – a lot of these were not applicable in that state,” he said.
“The sense of being separate from India that was taken advantage of to create both a separatist political moment as well as by our neighbour to undertake a very nasty unrelenting effort at cross border terrorism,” said Jaishankar.
When asked about the message India wanted to give to the outside world, he said, “I would not agree that it is negatively perceived across vast parts of the world. I travel a lot and speak to foreign ministers across a large number of countries and a lot of people get it and know what we are doing. There are segments of the media, some people who have ideological issues with it.”
First Published: Sept 9, 2019 2:14 PM IST
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