A grand applause has greeted record-breaking voter turnout in three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir Valley. A desert for electoral politics has suddenly started looking as an oasis in reality Spring was over by the time polling began in Kashmir- Srinagar constituency was the first to go to polls on May 13, Baramulla on May 20, and Anantnag –Rajouri on May 25, and by that summer had set in, but the real bloom spung at the polling stations. It was a beautiful sight.
The top leadership of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah , have attributed this high turnout of voters to the atmosphere that was brought about in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370. The scrapping of this Article, along with Article 35-A, told the people of Jammu and Kashmir where they stood in the Indian union – special status, rights and privileges were things of the past. Now they will have to live as pure Indians as per the Indian constitution – separate constitution and flags of the state were buried once and for all, and they should forget about their exclusive rights to land and jobs.
Now Home Minister Amit Shah has made it clear that the families or children of terrorists will not get government jobs. Analysts and leaders from BJP have linked it to the calm atmosphere after the abrogation of Article 370 to fearless voting by Kashmiri Muslims in the Lok Sabha polls. That is a superficial assessment of the situation.
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