FairPlanet spoke to Mehdi, one of the few elected representatives openly challenging not just the BJP’s Hindu nationalist agenda, but also the shifting stance of his own party, the National Conference. A sitting MP from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and a critic of Prime Minister Modi, Mehdi confronts what he calls an “ideological assault” on India’s secular foundations and refuses to let Kashmir’s political identity be rewritten in silence. In this wide-ranging conversation, Mehdi speaks...
