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Updated Dec 30, 2020 | 15:58 IST
This is not a verdict that allows for any sweeping claims made by the competing political parties to hold completely true.
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Free and fair elections are a necessary condition in any democracy, though not a sufficient one. Since August 5 last year, when the decision to virtually abrogate Article 370 was taken, many opposition leaders were detained or jailed, communication lines were snapped, and movement severely restricted, in Jammu and Kashmir. This, the government said, was done in the larger interest of protecting the people from the evil designs of terror outfits, and that restrictions would eventually be lifted. Rendering Article 370 virtually inactive, doing away with the discriminatory Article 35A, and the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories, including Ladakh, was a larger collective and national good, many supporters of the move believed, ....

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