Politics
November 20, 2024
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The price of a BJP alliance: How the PDP lost Kashmir

One August afternoon earlier this year, Aijaz Ahmad Mir, a young politician and former MLA of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was busy campaigning in his constituency of Zainapora (formerly Wachi) in South Kashmir when he learned that the party leadership had decided not to give him a ticket to contest in the Assembly election. […]