The CPI(M) Friday hit out at Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's "Article 35A is constitutionally vulnerable and an impediment to economic development of Jammu and Kashmir" comment, saying the remarks revealed the real intention of the saffron party.
In a blog, the senior BJP leader said Article 35A was "surreptitiously" included by a presidential notification in the Constitution in 1954.
The Article 35A, he said, was neither part of the original Constitution framed by the constituent assembly, nor did it come as a constitutional amendment under Article 368 of the Constitution which requires an approval by two-third majority of both Houses of Parliament.
The Article restricts non-permanent residents to buy property in Jammu and Kashmir.
"Jaitley said Article 35A is constitutionally vulnerable and an impediment to the economic development of Jammu and Kashmir. It reveals the real intentions of the saffron party in relation to special status of the state," senior CPI(M) leader