Kashmir : Virasat Aur Siyasat

Description

कश्मीर : विरासत और सियासत

At the peak of a recent standoff, a senior Congress leader in New Delhi candidly admitted that the government cannot go too far with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), its local partner that is currently running the government in Jammu & Kashmir. His point was that the Congress could hardly go along with PDP demands such as self-rule and increased powers to the Srinagar government, nor openly highlight the human rights abuses by the security forces in Kashmir. This was because, said the Congress leader, the vast number of voters in India could not be ignored. After all, there are only six seats in the national Parliament from Jammu & Kashmir, and “we cannot sacrifice 500 seats in the rest of India for the sake of just six seats”.

Additional information