Is history repeating the Ummat-e-Islamia-MUF-1987 rigged polls-militancy cycle? The recent verdict of the High Court calling for implementing the ban on the sale of beef has taken the State back to the Mirwaiz Qazi Nisar moment of 1985. Nisar had defied Governor Jagmohan Malhotra’s imposition of ban on the slaughter of livestock on Janmashtmi. It paved a way for the creation of Ummat-e-Islamia, which in turn cleared the decks for the formation of Muslim United Front (MUF). And MUF’s participation in the 1987 ‘rigged’ polls culminated in the outbreak of…
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