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Rehearsed in Kashmir, played out in rest of India

The script now playing out in the rest of the country, to suppress protests against the CAA, NRC and NPR, was not too long ago, rehearsed in Kashmir

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Footwears of protestors demonstrating against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) after Friday prayers in Gorakhpur, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019 | Photo: PTI

Bharat Bhushan
Are Indian citizens paying the price for remaining silent when the Modi regime removed the special Constitutional provisions for Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)? The script now playing out in the rest of the country, to suppress protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR), was not too long ago, rehearsed in Kashmir.

The rest of India appeared complicit with the Modi government when through subterfuge, presidential ordinances and a brute majority in parliament, it transformed the constitutional status and map of the state of J&K. The rest of India
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