"BJP Will Beat Rajiv Gandhi's Record If...": Yashwant Sinha On Kashmir

Ending the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir would further alienate people of the state but if national elections were held any time soon, the populist step would win the BJP a bigger victory than even Rajiv Gandhi's landslide in 1984 following the assassination of mother Indira Gandhi, Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said on Monday. A former BJP leader and one of the most vocal critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the months before this year's national elections, the 81-year-old chided the government for ending provisions under Article 370 of the constitution and splitting Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories with bills pushed through parliament.