(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: PoK & Aksai Chin: India's Options

Topic: PoK & Aksai Chin: India's Options

Guest:

Jayadeva Ranade, (Security & Intelligence Expert)
Maj. Gen. Dhruv C Katoch, (Retd., Director India Foundation)
Ashok Sajjanhar, (Former Diplomat)

Topic Description:

Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday asserted in Lok Sabha that Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Aksai Chin are part of Jammu and Kashmir and that Kashmir Valley is an integral part of the country. Moving a resolution for abrogating some provisions of Article 370 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill 2019, the home minister said there has been a long-standing demand for giving Union Territory status to Ladakh which was fulfilled by the Narendra Modi government. Dismissing opposition's charge that introduction of the bill and the resolution were a violation of the rights of the people, Shah said nobody can stop him from introducing a resolution on Kashmir in Parliament. The government on Monday revoked some provisions of the Article 370 to take away Jammu and Kashmir's special status, and proposed bifurcation of the state into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, a bold and far- reaching decision that seeks to redraw the map and future of a region at the centre of a protracted militancy movement.