In the 121st episode of Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed the innermost emotions of the entire nation on the Pahalgam terror attack. Only those who made it a crusade, since 2019, to engage in litigation, misinformation and disinformation, to prevent Kashmir from being normal, would disagree with the emotions expressed by PM Modi.

These interest groups with a global footprint, many of whose members have sympathised with and justified the acts of Pakistan-sponsored terrorists and terror groups in the past, made it their mission to discredit the Modi government and its vision of a “Naya Kashmir". A near-normalcy in Kashmir would only mean the end of their business. It would mean the shutting down of their shops and propaganda parlours. These groups need to be loudly called out, their intellectual co-partners need to be identified and exposed.

For all those who have been to Kashmir post 2019, post the abrogation of Article 370, PM Modi’s words would ring true. An unprecedented degree of vibrancy was returning to schools and colleges, tourism had peaked, the whole of India wanted to soak in the ambience of the state and rightly so. With the constitutional integration complete, it was a greater integration of the mind and emotion that was taking place.

From pipe water connection reaching remote villages for the first time since Independence, medical colleges and connectivity, an increasing pace of infrastructural growth, to a steep rise in investment and rise in employment........

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