The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 was enacted to provide for reorganisation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into the two union territories – one to be eponymously called Jammu and Kashmir, and the other Ladakh. The introduction of the bill was preceded by a presidential order under Article 370 of the Indian constitution that revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and mandating, inter alia, that all the provisions of the Indian Constitution would be applicable to Jammu and Kashmir.
Accordingly, the “State Legislature including Legislative Council of the State” has been abolished and shall from now onwards be construed as “Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir
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