Position of State under the Original Constitution of India

Position of State under the Original Constitution of India

But though the State was included as a Part B State, all the provisions of the Position of the Constitution applicable to Part B States were not State under the extended to Jammu & Kashmir. This peculiar position was due to the fact that having regard to the circumstances in which the State acceded to India, the Government of India had declared that it was the people of the State of Jammu & Kashmir, acting through their Constituent Assembly, who were to finally determine the Constitution of the State and the jurisdiction of the Union of India. The applicability of the provisions of the Constitution regarding this State were, accordingly, to be in the nature of an interim arrangement. (This was the substance of the provision embodied in Art. 370 of the Constitution of India.)