Even Seven Years After the Abrogation of Article 370, the Situation in Kashmir Remains Out of Control

Since the days of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, proponents of Hindutva had maintained that the special status accorded to Kashmir was an obstacle to its full integration into India. For decades, Hindutva supporters raised this slogan, and finally, on 5 August 2019, the BJP government fulfilled their long-cherished objective by abruptly abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution, thereby ending Kashmir's special status. The BJP government declared at the time that Kashmir's problems would now be resolved, terrorism would come to an end, and the region would become an integral part of India in the truest sense. Even before this measure was taken, Go…