Then are the people who work for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party that unilaterally scrapped Kashmir’s special status and split Jammu and Kashmir into two centrally-administered Union territories. Even as the rest of the party offices remain shuttered in Kashmir, the BJP office is buzzing with activity. Raja recalled there being just “five or six BJP people in Kashmir,” when he joined the party in 2002. Two decades on, Raja claims that BJP has offices in 10 districts of Kashmir, with more than four lakh workers. That BJP has 1,267 village chiefs in Kashmir, he added, means that their candidates for the upcoming block election are assured victory.

Source: Huffington Post October 14, 2019 02:15 UTC