National   

A retrograde legislation, says BJP

By Our Staff Reporter

JAMMU, MARCH 20. The Bharatiya Janata Party today asked the Mufti Government to drop the controversial Permanent Resident Bill (Disqualification) 2004.

Talking to presspersons here, the State BJP vice-president, Hari Om, accused the National Conference and the People's Democratic Party of unleashing "a no-holds-barred misinformation campaign to mislead and confuse the people on the Bill."

He said the definition of a State subject made by the erstwhile ruler of the state in 1927 had no connection with the present Bill. It was "an obnoxious and retrograde legislation, which dismissed the female State subjects with contempt and deprived women marrying outside the State of their natural right to inherit ancestral property or own immovable property in the State."

Also, the Bill found no place in Article 370 of the Constitution. "It is an attempt by the People's Democratic Party to inflame passions and an electoral ploy," Mr. Hari Om said.

The BJP demanded that the Bodhi language spoken in Ladakh be included in the eighth schedule of the Constitution.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

National

News: Front Page | National | Tamil Nadu | Andhra Pradesh | Karnataka | Kerala | New Delhi | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous |
Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Updates: Breaking News |

Stories in this Section

• Congressmen should ponder over `leadership issue': Advani
• Poll panel stops a near-complete Modi `yatra'
• Congress, NCP formalise agreement
• Lok Satta puts 51 on A.P. watch list
• CPI(M) criticises Government's education policy
• Varun denies anti-Sonia remark
• Pakistan greets Indian `invaders' with warmth
• Congress responsible for stalling Women Reservation Bill: Vajpayee
• Vajpayee promises second green revolution
• Training camps for Rajasthan priests
• A retrograde legislation, says BJP
• `Courts cannot interfere in arbitration proceedings'
• Flower named after Amitabh Bachchan
• Export of Kashmiri trout planned
• Nafisa Ali, Sachin Pilot in Congress second list
• `GM technology has to be regulated'
• A life-line for the aged
• Hurriyat accepts invitation for talks
• Mayawati leaves opponents foxed
• Samajwadi Party rules out tie-up with Congress
• India may join project on nuclear fusion
• Khurana for developing spiritual tourism
• Observers asked to keep vigil on poll expenses
• India to restore 12th century temple in Cambodia
• Congress challenges BJP for a debate
• Mulayam cautions Sonia
• Protests turn violent in Srinagar
• BJP to finalise full list on March 23
• CPI(M) objects to AJT deal
• Why he changed his mind
• `Will back action against foreign author'
• Let them first learn Hindi: Katiyar
• `Experienced students' help IIM-B better placement record
• EC recognises old Samata Party
• BJP to finalise full list on March 23
• Sonia's poll managers get media act together
• Forces brace for elections, at gunpoint
• Tribal party woos Gond vote in M.P.
• POLL-POURRI
• Q & A: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
• Campaigning without leaders
• A test for Narendra Modi
• Q & A: Sharad Pawar
• AGP complains of phone tapping
• For Delhi's jobless, it certainly isn't shining
• Chaos governs issue of photo ID cards

Copyright © 2004, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu