Complaint What is the difference between article 35A and article 370?

  • Jammu and Kashmir CM Office Contact Address, Phone Number, Email ID, Toll Free Helpline - What is the difference between article 35A and article 370?
    on 2018-08-30 04:43:08

    Article 370 guarantees special status to J&K, restricting the central government’s power to only three subjects - defence, foreign affairs and communication.

    Article 35A

    Empowers the Jammu and Kashmir state's legislature to define “permanent residents” of the state and provide special rights and privileges to those permanent residents.
    Added to the Constitution through a Presidential Order, i.e., The Constitution (Applications to Jammu & kashmir) Order, 1954 - issued by the President of India on 14 May 1954, "in exercise of the powers conferred by" clause (1) of Article 370 of the Constitution, with the concurrence of the Government of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

    Article 370

    Gives autonomous status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
    The article is drafted in Part XXI of the Constitution: Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions.
    The State’s Constituent Assembly was empowered to recommend the articles of the Indian constitution to be applied to the state or to abrogate the Article 370 altogether. After the state Constituent Assembly dissolved itself without recommending abrogation, the Article 370 was deemed to have become a permanent feature of the Indian Constitution