Like most of his political career spanning nearly 67 years, the second stint of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, which turned out to be his last, was marked by four major controversies, which saw the PDP at loggerheads with the BJP, its coalition partner. It took nearly two months of hectic back-channel negotiations to cobble together a coalition of the PDP and BJP, parties with divergent views on Kashmir and its special relationship with the Union. In fact, emerging after a 90-minute meeting with Prime…
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