J&K: Petty politics at its worst

There is a deeper lesson pertaining to Kashmir politics to be taken from the shameful scenes witnessed in the J&K Assembly in Srinagar on Monday — that politicians in the Valley can’t resist the temptation of making the trivial seem critical. When high-voltage drama is unleashed at the drop of a hat, it becomes impossible to tell the wheat from the chaff, and the important issues of the day get buried under a mound of patently cooked-up allegations aimed at unsettling the existing political order.

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