Page 17 - Tehelka Issue 13 - July 15, 2018

kashmir politics

With the alliance now
broken, both parties will
play to their galleries
photos: faizal khan

ished an official meeting when the then Chief Secretary
the alliance with pDp B B Vyas informed her of the development after receiv-
ing a call from the Governor N N Vohra, who, in turn, had
had enabled the BJp to received a faxed letter from the BJP. Mehbooba immedi-
ately decided to resign. She headed to her residence at
rule india’s only muslim Gupkar, held a meeting with her party leaders and later
at a press conference said she was not surprised.
“Our alliance was not for power but for the good of
majority state, an Kashmir. It had a bigger objective. We made unilateral

otherwise improbable ceasefire possible, Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) went
to Lahore, we withdrew cases against 11,000 youth,” she
told reporters.
prospect in view of safeguarding the J&K’s special constitutional position
Mehbooba also said the coalition with the BJP was for
party’s aggressive within Indian Union. “In our four years with the BJP, we
did everything to protect the Article 370 and Article 35A.
nationalist credentials We robustly defended the constitutional provisions in
the Supreme Court,” she said.
But her efforts to validate the alliance found fewer
takers in Kashmir. On the contrary, Kashmir rejoiced
over the break-up. The social media and the Whatsapp

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