It is good for India and the region that ultra right Sangh Parivar has lost power in three key states. This development has certainly dealt a blow to prime minister Narendra Modi's prospects ahead of the 2019 general elections in India. Losing elections in rural heartland states of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and MP constitutes a wake-up call for Modi who has been acting as the most divisive force in India. In the case of disputed Kashmir, his belligerence knows no bounds. He has turned Indian troops deployed in the disputed territory into massive killing machines, targeting innocent Kashmiris, including women, 24/7. He is still refusing to accept the fact that the coalition government headed by PDP's Mehbooba Mufti collapsed last June as the freedom movement spiraled out of control despite use of extreme violence by Indian security forces.
As pointed out by one of Business Recorder editorials, at the time, Mufti had made her disapproval known of BJP's hard-line stance saying "the muscular policy will not work in Kashmir. ... Jammu and Kashmir is not an enemy territory." The imposition of governor's rule on occupied Jammu and Kashmir has also not worked for New Delhi.
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