The BJP appears to have dug itself into a hole ahead of the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir. The ruling party’s plans of manipulating to its advantage the fractured political scenario both in the Kashmir Valley and the Jammu region are rapidly getting unstuck.
This may end up in either handing the upper hand to the alliance between the National Conference and the Congress party, or the Kashmiri radicals led by the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) recently started by gaoled separatist leader ‘Engineer’ Rashid who stunned the Modi government by sweeping the Lok Sabha polls in Baramulla a few months ago.
On the other hand, with the Awami Ittehad Party planning to contest nearly three dozen seats in Kashmir, an influx of radicals in the assembly could give a huge boost to the separatist movement in the Valley. Indeed, it would be reminiscent of the grievous mistake made by the BJP when it decided to experiment with a disastrous ruling coalition with the People’s Democratic Party that triggered a wave of local and cross-border terrorism, resulting in a complete breakdown of law and order in the state, not only leading to the collapse of the government but paving the way for the revocation of Article 370 and the estrangement of people across the Valley from New Delhi more than ever before….
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