Several leaders have quit, its support base has eroded and there are new challengers to its mantle of ‘soft separatism’, said observers. #assemblyelections2024 #JammuAndKashmirElections #Mainstream #politics scroll.in/article/107265…

Ahead of the first assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir since 2019, conversations with party leaders and insiders suggest that the PDP is facing a crisis. scroll.in/article/107265… What has led to the party's slow erosion in the region, and what does its future hold? Safwat Zargar | صفوت زرگر

With both parents behind bars and a grinding legal fight to seek their release, Sugra somehow managed to pass her Class 9 examination. However, as the struggle prolonged, she quit her studies. #AssemblyElections2024 scroll.in/article/107280…

“It’s okay if he wouldn’t have been able to do much for the constituency," said an elderly resiednt. “We would be happy if our vote helped him and his wife walk free. Their kids are like orphans without them.” scroll.in/article/107280…

Proud of the breadth and depth of the stories we do. Five of them won the 2024 Laadli awards. Congratulations Johanna Deeksha, Rokibuz Zaman , Mahima Jain, Tora Agarwala! scroll.in/latest/1072851…

Srinagar’s landscape tells the stories – and silences – of five years since August 5, 2019 Safwat Zargar | صفوت زرگر took a walk around the city, mapping the additions and erasures of the last half-decade. scroll.in/article/107162…

Children are signing up as insurgents and getting killed in a war — within India, not faraway. Read. scroll.in/article/107296…

“…the promise made by the NC and PDP in their manifestos about repealing the PSA is as difficult, if not impossible, as their promise to restore Article 370 and 35A.” frontline.thehindu.com/politics/jammu…

The BJP is resurrecting and redeploying techniques that the Congress party has already tried and perfected in J&K in 1972 ⁦The Quint⁩ thequint.com/opinion/jamaat…

🚨 Crazy story alert 🚨 FIR by Navi Mumbai police as mutton shop owner had written RAM on goat about to be sold. Shop damaged by local VHP, goats seized by cops Now police find RAM was short for Riyaz Ahmed Meghani who had purchased the goat ! Court asks cops to return goats

Abdul Rashid Sheikh, aka Engineer Rashid, was arrested in the immediate aftermath of New Delhi’s decision to scrap Article 370 of the Constitution and break the state of J&K into two Union territories. scroll.in/article/1070204 Vineet Bhalla & Safwat Zargar | صفوت زرگر explain the case against

“Earlier, we would see BJP workers in masks and trying to hide their faces when they would attend rallies. Now, our workers are openly admitting that they are with the party.” scroll.in/article/107316…

Despite its elaborate list of promises, for the BJP the Kashmir Valley remains a difficult frontier to cross largely for its anti-Muslim politics in the mainland, observers said. scroll.in/article/107316… Safwat Zargar | صفوت زرگر reports

The BJP’s impossible task in Kashmir Valley The party’s acceptability has grown in the last decade, but its ambitions of forming a government will run into the widespread anger against it, reports Safwat Zargar | صفوت زرگر scroll.in/article/107316… via Scroll.in

“Lynching, demolition of houses of Muslims, declaring Muslims foreigners. In this era of information technology, whatever happens in India, Kashmiris go through it and accordingly formulate their attitude towards the BJP" an observer told Safwat Zargar | صفوت زرگر scroll.in/article/107316…

Legal experts and politicians say the next chief minister will be like a glorified sarpanch and the Assembly little more than a municipal council. scroll.in/article/107077… Safwat Zargar | صفوت زرگر #JKELECTIONS

“...we have to remember that once the Congress was also seen as an outcast in Kashmir. Now, it’s an acceptable player in Kashmir. It may take us hundreds of years more to convince Kashmiris and we are ready for that.” #JammuKashmirElections2024 scroll.in/article/107316…