ALL About article 370 of the Indian constitution.
                     ALL ABOUT ARTICLE 
370 OF THE INDIAN 
CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 370
• Article 370 gave special status to the Indian state of 
Jammu & Kashmir, which was administered as a 
state of India from 1954 to 31st October 2019.
• The region has been a subject of dispute between 
India, Pakistan and China.
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IN THE CONSTITUTION
• The article was drafted in Part XXI of the 
Constitution: Temporary, Transitional and Special 
Provisions. It established the Constituent 
Assembly of Jammu & Kashmir to form its own 
constitution.
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PURPOSE
• Article 370 empowered Kashmir to have its own 
state flag, a separate constitution and autonomy 
over internal administration of the state.
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WHY ARTICLE 370?
• The accession of the state of Jammu & Kashmir to 
the Indian Union was unlike other princely states, 
who chose that the country should have a single 
constitution rather than a constitution for each 
state.
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JAMMU & KASHMIR
• Representatives to the constituent assembly of 
Jammu & Kashmir requested that only those 
provisions of the Indian Constitution corresponding 
to the Instrument of Accession should be applied to 
the state.
INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION
• The Instrument of Accession signed by Maharaja 
Hari Singh declared that the state shall not be 
compelled to accept any future Constitution of 
India and has the rights to frame its own 
constitution.
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REVOCATION OF ARTICLE 370
• On 5th August 2019, Union Home Minister Amit 
Shah announced that The President of India 
issued an order that stated all the provisions of 
Indian Constitution applied to the state of J&K. 
• Both houses of the Parliament later passed a 
resolution introduced by the Home Minister, 
which rendered all clauses of Article 370 as 
inoperative, thereby revoking the article.
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JAMMU & KASHMIR 
REORGANIZATION ACT, 2019
• Along with revocation of Article 370, the Home 
Minister introduced the bill which reorganized the 
state into two union territories, Jammu & Kashmir 
and Ladakh. The bill became an act after it was 
signed by the President.
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