Former Indian home minister and veteran Congress leader P. Chidambaram has said that India has lost Kashmir.

In a media interview in New Delhi, he said we have practically lost Kashmir as no democratic country can keep an entire population under siege.

He said that by carrying out fundamental changes in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP government has committed ‘constitutional desecration’.

Chidambaram said the government’s claims about the calm in the Kashmir Valley today is nothing but a ‘deceptive calm’.

He suggested that the first step to resolving the Kashmir issue is to engage the people there in a dialogue and an engagement in a bilateral dialogue with Pakistan.

Meanwhile, armed with hammers, rods, draggers, sticks and stones, the goons associated with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party broken into Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, in New Delhi and brutally assaulted students and teachers with the Delhi police fully supporting the attackers.

Dozens of the injured students, including 30 critically, were admitted to the hospitals in Delhi.

NNR/Karrar