Jammu, Aug. 5 -- Contrasting political narratives played out across Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday as the ruling National Conference (NC), opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Congress and Apni Party staged protests against the abrogation of Article 370, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrated the seventh anniversary of the constitutional change, describing it as a historic milestone that transformed the Union Territory.
The anniversary of the August 5, 2019 decision, through which the Centre revoked the special status of the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated it into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, witnessed demonstrations, restrictions on political activities and sharp exchanges bet...