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  J&K: Article 370 and Lok Sabha Elections- The Relationship Lalit K Kaul Can Lok Sabha elections be conducted in J&K? The possibility of holding one is dictated by the status of Article 370; that's, whether it's in vogue or not. Thus, Article 370 can be the inhibitor/facilitator in/of the process. But the degenerate political system that has been thriving post Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri era and has excelled in maximizing the exploitation of the adage “Politics is the Art of the Possible” does not recognize any legalities, constitutional validities and moral imperatives and in their lust for capturing political power set such narratives in public domain-while canvassing-that may end-up doing incalculable harm to the very fabric of Indian society, the body politic and integrity of India. It's election time in J&K and misleading the potential voters and poisoning their minds by the leaders of the local political outfits is unabashed. The regional parties ar...

  It's Time that a non-Muslim became the CM of the UT of J&K Lalit K Kaul Fundamentally speaking, there is no such provision in the Constitution of India which obligates that in a non-Muslim majority State a Non-Muslim should become the CM and in a Muslim majority State a Muslim. That's why it was that Sri Abdul Gafoor became the CM of Bihar in the decade of 80s and that a non-Muslim majority Nation had seen many Muslim Rashtrapati. More than the Constitution of India, it's about the history of existence of the last 76 years in J&K which stares into everyone's face reminding them unambiguously and vociferously how this experiment of having a Muslim CM in the erstwhile J&K state had not only failed its people but also traumatized its heterogeneous society having succeeded in transforming Kashmir into a homogeneous one. It was an experiment that the Constitution of India didn't necessitate, but that the then political situation, perhaps, did. Any...