BJP's Afzal paradox: hit students, hug PDP

February 15, 2016 12:09

Zero-tolerance for Afzal Guru protesters in Delhi, undying zeal for a deal in Srinagar with those who believe he was wrongly hanged.

The BJP has swooped hard on "seditious" Guru activists in the capital, but remains intent on power ambitions in Jammu and Kashmir with the PDP, which considers Guru's execution a miscarriage of justice. BJP general secretary and Kashmir interlocutor Ram Madhav is slated to travel to Srinagar for "government formation" talks with PDP boss Mehbooba Mufti.

But the odds those talks will proceed in Madhav's mandated direction are dimming by the hour. The ghost of Guru has exhumed itself to startle the already stranded PDP-BJP alliance. Read more

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