Home Minister Amit Shah released a statement to revoke Article 370: J&K and Ladakh to be UT Abhishek Tripathi LAW CRITIQUE Mon, Aug 05, 2019, at ,12:05 PM Between the turmoil and panic mounted in Kashmir Union Home Minister Amit Shah issued a statement to remove Article 370 in the Rajya Sabha amid much uproar. Amit Shah also said that a separate Union Territory for Jammu and Kashmir, with the Legislature, will be made. The Union territory of Ladakh will be without legislature. After Srinagar and Jammu Section 144 is imposed in the whole of Jammu and Kashmir and all major leaders of Jammu and Kashmir are under house arrest. The warlike situation in J&K, all mobile and networking services have been shut down. Text of the order from the President NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 5th August 2019 G.S.R .551(E).— the following Order made by the President is published for general information:- THE CONSTITUTION (APPLICATION TO JAMMU AND KASHMIR) ORDER, 2019 C.O. 272 In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 370 of the Constitution, the President, with the concurrence of the Government of State of Jammu and Kashmir, is pleased to make the following Order:— 1. (1) This Order may be called the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 2019. (2) It shall come into force at once, and shall thereupon supersede the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954 as amended from time to time. 2. All the provisions of the Constitution, as amended from time to time, shall apply in relation to the State of Jammu and Kashmir and the exceptions and modifications subject to which they shall so apply shall be as follows:— To article 367, there shall be added the following clause, namely:— “(4) For the purposes of this Constitution as it applies in relation to the State of Jammu and Kashmir— (a) references to this Constitution or to the provisions thereof shall be construed as references to the Constitution or the provisions thereof as applied in relation to the said State; (b) references to the person for the time being recognized by the President on the recommendation of the Legislative Assembly of the State as the Sadar-i-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir, acting on the advice of the Council of Ministers of the State for the time being in office shall be construed as references to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir; (c) references to the Government of the said State shall be construed as including references to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir acting on the advice of his Council of Ministers; and (d) in the proviso to clause (3) of article 370 of this Constitution, the expression “Constituent Assembly of the State referred to in clause (2)” shall read “Legislative Assembly of the State”.” Mahbooba Mufti Tweeted: “Today marks the darkest day in Indian democracy. The decision of J&K leadership to reject 2 nation theory in 1947 & align with India has backfired. Unilateral decision of GOI to scrap Article 370 is illegal & unconstitutional which will make India an occupational force in J&K.”