A time for new leaders | The Indian Express

A time for new leaders | The Indian Express

Written by Ram Madhav |Updated: August 22, 2019 9:11:43 am

The writer is national general secretary, BJP, and director, India Foundation.

A time for new leaders

Kashmir needs a new leadership, built not on the separatist narrative of the 20th century but on the development narrative of the 21st century. It is here that the investment and focus of the central government should go.

A view of Lalchowk in Srinagar. (Express Photo by Shuaib Masoodi)

For the separatists in Kashmir, the winter chill has set in early. And it is likely to be a long haul. The heat and dust of separatism and terrorism, that had been the bread and butter of many of leaders in the Kashmir Valley, seems to have lost steam. These leaders, who had consistently been fed on the staple of separatism and special status, find the new reality unfathomable. But the people of the Valley are at least thinking about it, even if they are not openly supporting the Narendra Modigovernment’s move to nullify Article 370 of the Indian Constitution.