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Delineate the key factors that have shaped the evolving political landscape in Jammu and Kashmir post 2019.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 10 marks
  • Principal Organs of Government

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On 5 August 2019 a Presidential Order applied the whole Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir, ending its separate constitution and flag, and the Reorganisation Act 2019 created a Union Territory with a legislature and carved out Ladakh without one. Asymmetric federalism gave way to direct central rule. Eight factors have shaped the politics since.

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