Former Jammu and Kashmir police chief Kuldeep Khoda has warned of a "cult" being born in the state with more educated youths getting enthused to join militancy and picking up the gun becoming an "attractive and glamorous" option.
The "dimensions and dynamics" of terrorism are changing, Khoda, the longest and amongst the most successful police chiefs of the state, has said in a blog.
Examining the reasons for increasing number of youths joining militancy, he said, "When political grid is inactive, even if security grid gets results, common man on many occasions becomes a victim of favoritism and nepotism. Frustration of common man with the system he is in, has to find an exit route."
"Earlier unheard but now a reality is that large number of educated youth are getting enthused to be part of the 'movement' and to spearhead it. A local Ph.D scholar studying in Aligarh Muslim University, a faculty member from Kashmir University who subsequently got killed in an operation, an MBA son of a prominent separatist, are some of the recently recruited educated youth."