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Berget August 5, 2019", said a senior NC leader. The BJP is categorical that Articles 370 and 35A are done and dusted and there is no way these can be restored. The biggest problem for the BJP in Kashmir is that it has not been able to catch the imagination of the common man, despite a deep feeling of betrayal towards the NC and other regional parties.The BJP is still far away from anchoring itself on the ground in Kashmir while its political base in the Jammu division has been bruised instead of getting strengthened after J&K became a union territory. The PDP as a political party stands decimated so far as its top leadership is concerned, but the PDP's loss has not been the BJP's gain.The NC has suffered a serious ground erosion and yet it remains in one piece as a political entity in both the regions of J&K.After having demonised the NC and the PDP as political extensions of family rule and corruption, the BJP will find it literally impossible to work out any future arrangement with either of them. The detention of regional political leaders for nearly one year after August 5, 2019 has not generated a groundswell for the BJP in Kashmir. These realities do not augur well for an early political process getting underway in J&K. Holding Assembly elections will have to be a people participative process and cannot be done to the exclusion of all the regional parties, especially when a viable alternative to the well entrenched ones is yet to emerge. This is a political jigsaw puzzle for Delhi whose pieces do not seem to fall in place some time soon.
--IANS sq/dpb