It appears that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s plan to expand its footprint in the Kashmir valley has received a jolt from the killing of Ghulam Nabi Patel on Wednesday. Hours after he was killed by militants at the market in Rajpora, many of BJP’s followers there and in the wider area of the south have fled and taken refuge in Srinagar. The party is looking to accommodate around 30-odd “workers” in private accommodations in Srinagar who have been shaken by the attack in broad daylight on a politician who had…
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