How The Left Was Right In Handling Kashmir Issue

The latest trip of CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury in Srinagar can be seen as an example of deft political maneuvering which other larger opposition parties could not think of. The Left parties might have been reduced to a marginal force in the Indian political landscape, but they still have the ability to come up with cool ideas. The latest trip of CPIM general secretary Sitaram Yechury in Srinagar can be seen as an example of such deft political maneuvering which other larger opposition parties could not think of.

Yechury, concerned over detention of his party colleague and former Jammu and Kashmir MLA Yusuf Tarigami, filed a habeas corpus petition in the Supreme Court on August 24. A four-time MLA from Kulgam, Tarigami was detained and put under indefinite house arrest from August 5, along with all other political leaders of J&K as the Narendra Modi government swiftly moved to scrap Article 370 and bifurcated J&K into two union territories.