1987: What led to Militancy in Kashmir | Rajiv Gandhi’s Killing of Democracy | Election Special

In light of ongoing elections in Jammu & Kashmir, we uncover how rigging of the 1987 elections by Rajiv Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah, led to its darkest hour of militancy, which finally came to a relative end after abrogation of Article 370, 3 decades later in 2019.

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