In Jammu & Kashmir, the National Conference and its allies won a comfortable majority to form the first elected government after six years of Central government’s authoritarian rule. The unambiguous mandate of the people in Jammu & Kashmir is a rebuff to the machinations of the BJP Central government to scuttle the democratic aspirations of the people through abrogation of Article 370, abolition of statehood through bifurcation of the state into two Union Territories and the manipulative delimitation of the constituencies.