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Past governments eroded Article 370: Former J&K interlocutor Radha Kumar

Argument that Article 370 is the problem is completely wrong, says Kumar

Radha Kumar
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Radha Kumar | Illustration by Binay Sinha

Sai Manish
Radha Kumar was one of the three interlocutors appointed by the United Progressive Alliance-2 government in 2010 to interact with various sections of Kashmiri society and prepare a report incorporating those views. In an interview to Sai Manish, Kumar expresses anguish on the abrogation of Article 370 and the manner in which the Modi government executed a far reaching Constitutional change without the consent of the very people whose lives it was supposed to affect the most. Edited excerpts:

As an interlocutor, one of the options you gave was to abrogate Article 370. Are you satisfied with the way it