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Amidst the greater cheers, supports, protests, doubts and confusions on the revocation of Article 370, prime Minister of the nation, Narendra Modi is likely to address the people of the nation. Modi, as per reports, will be speaking on the revocation of Article 370 in J&K.
The PM’s speech for the nation has come to be scheduled after 2 days of the revocation of the article in the parliament as proposed by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Immediately after ending the Article 370 and its influence, the special status enjoyed by J&K ever since the independence of the nation, has also come to an end. Not only this, a bill to bifurcate the state and divide it into two Union Territories was also proposed and passed by the parliament. This resulted in Kashmir and Ladakh being Union Territories, Kashmir with a legislature and Ladakh without a legislature.
The reports of the possibility of PM addressing the nation were received from a twitter post made by the Prime Minister’s office. The tweet stated that the PM will be addressing the nation at 8 PM today.’
https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1159388220196642818
As per speculations on the Modi speech to be delivered in the evening, sources say that the PM will make an attempt at explaining the impact of the decision on the country along with also putting an effort at communicating with the people of Jammu and Kashmir. His effort will be to try to talk to the people of the state and make then understand the reasons and benefits of the revocation of Article 370 and the bifurcation of the state.
The last time Modi had addressed the nation was on March 27 during which his speech comprised of an announcement that India had demonstrated anti-satellite missile (A-Sat) capability by shooting down a live satellite.