Leave aside the blame game. Let's consider the fallout from the BJP's decision to walk out of the alliance it had with Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu and Kashmir.
The possibility of an alternative regime emerging from the current assembly is remote. Together, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), the National Conference (NC) and the Congress have the numbers to sew up a partnership. But they'd be daunted to take the plunge in the prevailing security situation in the Valley.
The NC's Omar Abdullah has already ruled out the possibility. He said the mandate his party lost in 2014 hasn't been regained with Mehbooba's fall for his party to form an alternative regime.
In that sense, ‘Project Democracy' (at the core of which is popularly mandated governance) is in a shambles in the troubled state. So are the nascent efforts at setting up an intra-Kashmir dialogue.
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