Dalit laws were not applied in Jammu and Kashmir: PM Modi

Defending the move to scrap Article 370, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said dalits in Jammu and Kashmir were being deprived of strong laws that protect atrocities against them in all other states in India.

"In different states of the country sanitation workers come under the sanitation worker act, but workers from J&K were deprived of it. In many states, strong laws are there to stop atrocities against dalits, but this was not the case in J&K," he said.