On May 20, a day after the BJP pulled out from the alliance with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, the editor of an Urdu newspaper in Srinagar told his reporters that a new government will be formed soon. It was hard to swallow for the newsroom that Sajad Lone—separatist-turned-mainstream-politician, who was a minister in the PDP-BJP alliance, will be heading the new coalition. Son of Abdul Gani Lone who was killed by unidentified gunmen in 2002, Sajad has called Prime Minister, Narendra Modi his elder brother and doesn’t shy away…
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