Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has scrapped a special constitutional amendment that guarantees autonomy and special rights to Jammu & Kashmir, the country’s only Muslim-majority state.
Home Minister Amit Shah, one of Mr Modi’s most trusted political confidants, announced the dramatic and controversial decision in Parliament on Monday morning, triggering a huge uproar in the legislature.
As the government prepared to make its stealth announcement, Kashmir had been put under virtual lockdown, with all outsiders cleared from the state, tens of thousands of additional security forces deployed in the region, all public movements restricted, and all communications in the state cut off.
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