Yashwant Sinha , a former BJP leader who has joined the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) has been heading the Concerned Citizens Group on Kashmir for the last few years. He talked to Yawar Hussain Yashwant Sinha KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Your Concerned Citizens Group (CCG) started the Kashmir journey in 2016. In your view, what has changed since then in Kashmir? YASHWANT SINHA (YS): The geography has changed. The government of India has used geography as a weapon and split the erstwhile state. From a state, we have seen Jammu and Kashmir become a union territory without Ladakh. It is for the first time in history that a state has been downgraded to a UT.