RAJYASABHA
The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. In the Indian quasi federal structure, Rajya Sabha is a representative of the states in the union legislature. For this reason, the Rajya Sabha has powers that protect the right of States against the union. The Rajya Sabha, by a two-thirds supermajority can pass a resolution empowering the Government of India to create more All-India Services common to both Union and States, including a judicial service and an escort services.
Article 370 of the Indian constitution gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir— a region located in the northern part of Indian subcontinent which was administered by India as a state. This article, along with Article 35A, defined that the Jammu and Kashmir state's residents live under a separate set of laws, including those related to citizenship, ownership of property, and fundamental rights, as compared to residents of other Indian states. As a result of this provision, Indian citizens from other states could not purchase land or property in Jammu & Kashmir. As no outsider can settle in the state and own any property there, the politically well-connected people stand to gain enormously. It is these influential people who make the rules, decide the price and determine the buyer, since any competition from an outsider is completely ruled out. as no culture can survive without the stimulus of outside contact and opportunity to cross-fertilise. It was this mind-set that has been responsible for creating the violent communal upsurge of 1989, which finally led to the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. Whereas, Article 370 provides all the political, economic and cultural and other safeguards to Kashmiris, the same provision is misused of by Kashmiris to deny the same safeguards to people of other regions of the state. As a result of this provision, Indian citizens from other states could not purchase land or property in Jammu and Kashmir. On 5 August. 2019, President RamNath Kovind issued a constitutional order superseding the 1954 order, and making all the provisions of the Indian constitution applicable to Jammu and Kashmir based on the resolutions passed in both houses of the parliament, with 2/3 majority. Following the resolutions passed in both houses of the parliament, he issued a further order on 6th August declaring all the clauses of Article 370 except clause 1 to be inoperative.
In addition, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act was passed by the parliament, enacting the division of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories to be called Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh. The Reorganisation took place on 31st October 2019. The conference of 2019 would be precisely empathised on the revocation of the Article 370.