Under the autonomy resolution, J&K shall enjoy complete autonomy on all the issues except defence, foreign policy and communication, which will lie with the Centre.
Former Jammu and Kashmir prime minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah's grandson Muzaffar Shah is set to move the Supreme Court seeking restoration of the internal autonomy to the state as promised under the Delhi Agreement, 1952.
Shah, who is the Working President of Awami National Conference (ANC) and son of "Sher-e-Kashmir" ' Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah's eldest daughter Khalida Shah, has hired a group of lawyers who are preparing a petition to be filed in the Apex court in September.
"We are moving the Apex court asking for the grant of Internal Autonomy as it existed as per the Delhi Agreement signed by the then prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru and the then prime minister of Jammu and Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in 1952. That is the basic document which forms defines centre-state relations," Shah told DNA.
The National Conference government of Farooq Abdullah in the state had passed the autonomy resolution in the Legislative Assembly with two-third majority on June 26, 2000. However, it was summarily rejected by the then NDA government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Under the autonomy resolution, J&K shall enjoy complete autonomy on all the issues except defence, foreign policy and communication, which will lie with the Centre.
"It was rejected by the Central government, so we will go to the Supreme Court. The Article 35A issue has also come up and people are now challenging our constitution. The constitution of J&K is as sacrosanct as the Constitution of India," he said.
Shah rejected the notion that the petition seeking autonomy was a kind of "tit for tat" action against the move to challenge the state subject law under Article 35A.
"Constitution of J&K, which came into existence in 1939, is bible for us. There is no question of tit for tat. It (the move to apex court for autonomy) has been weighing in our mind for some time," said Shah.
The ANC leader, who will be the main petitioner, is banking on three reports which would be added as annexure with the main plea for the restoration of autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir.
"There are reports which were penned down by my father and former chief minister Late GM Shah, who was one of the toughest colleagues of Sher-e-Kashmir and DD Thakur. Plus the autonomy report of National Conference government which unfortunately was moved as a resolution and not as a bill in the Assembly", said Shah.
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