Seven Years After Article 370: Modi’s Kashmir Gamble Came at the Cost of Democracy
By Shazia Malik On the morning of August 5, 2019, India awoke to one of the most cruel constitutional decisions ever made in India, since Independence. In a move that had been central to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) political agenda for decades, and an election promise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government revoked Article 370, ending Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional status and reorganizing the state into two Union Territories. Supporters hailed the decision as the final step toward India’s complete national integration, saying it would dismantle barriers to investment, curb separatism, strengthen security and bring Jammu and Kashmir underRead More
