Finance minister Arun Jaitley Thursday said Article 35A, which restricts non-permanent residents to buy property in Jammu and Kashmir, is “constitutionally vulnerable” and also hampering economic development of the state.The statement comes amidst the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pressing for early elections to the assembly in the state, which is presently under president’s rule. In a blog, Jaitley said the seven-decade history of Jammu and Kashmir confronts “changing India” with several questions. “Was the Nehruvian course, which the state had embarked, a historical blunder or was it the correct course…
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