The reason for making J&K a UT is, without the police or the IAS directly under the boots of the Abdullahs or the Muftis, their capacity to make money or create mischief will be severely limited.
The art of consent that Vajpayee had reminded us of, molded to our Nationalist Ideologies, Kashmiriyat and Insaniyat stands tall, His Jamhooriyat seems crumbling.
It took us 70 long years to undo a glaring wrong and a monumental mistake committed by our leaders of the past but finally that day has come and it isn't a day too soon.
J&K turning into a union territory will help the center to gain a stronghold in the region with the police and other departments under its home ministry.
If J&K wants to remain a Muslim majority state in a Secular country, it is like an oxymoron. Either J&K has to forget its religious identity or else India has to become a Hindu Rashtra.
आज जम्मू -कश्मीर के पास एक सुनहरा अवसर है की वह इस फैसले को सहर्ष स्वीकार कर के खुद और आने पीढ़ी को एक स्वर्णिम भविष्य दे जिसमे आतंकवाद और अलगवाद का कोई स्थान ना हो ना ही मुफ़्ती-अब्दुल्लाह जैसे स्वार्थी-वंशवादी जैसे लोग हो जो आम कश्मीरी अवाम को सपने बेचते है।
Only the Kashmiri people should be able to take decision about their territory is as treacherous as those 'Aazadi' slogans that kept reverberating till now in the valley and leftist bastions such as JNU.
Scrapping of article 370 is a sigh of relief for Kashmiri Paandits as they will no longer be treated as second-class citizens in their own homeland. And that's why we are happy. And so is every pro-Indian Kashmiri.
Abolishing Article 370 will bring much needed economic activity into the region and integrate places like Jammu and Ladakh with mainstream India as they had to suffer because of unrest in few districts of Jammu and Kashmir.