The people of the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) were disenfranchised when the Parliament of India, through the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act 2019, deprived the territory of its statehood. Under the Act, the erstwhile state of J&K was bifurcated into two Union Territories – the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and of Ladakh. On the heels of the Presidential notification issued on 6 August 2019 under clause 3 of Article 370 of the Constitution, which empowers the President to cease or modify the operation of Article 370, the “special status” of J&K was de-operationalised.