A few hours after Union Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the President-apporved bill to remove special status to India's border state Jammu and Kashmir, twitter flooded with reactions of politicians, filmstars and analysts.
Former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister and PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti vent her anger saying that the 'Unilateral decision of GOI to scrap Article 370 is illegal & unconstitutional which will make India an occupational force in J&K'. Mufti has been under house arrest since Sunday.
BJP leader and former Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely hailed the Modi government for the 'monumental decision towards National integration'
In a terse tweet, film star and BJP member Anupam Kher declared that 'Kashmir solution has begun'.
BJP's points person for Jammu and Kashmir Ram Madhav described it as a glorious day.
Historian Ramachandra Guha called the entire episode an example of authoritarianism. In another tweet Guha quoted Jayaprakash Narayan from 1966 ‘If we continue to rule by force and suppress these people and crush them or change the racial or religious character of their state by colonization, or by any other means, then I think that means politically a most obnoxious thing to do’.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal came out in favour of the decision.
