The downfall of the grotesquely conjoined PDP-BJP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir doesn’t appear to have led to the mass turmoil that was witnessed on termination of Farooq Abdullah’s government in 1984 and 1990, or even Ghulam Nabi Azad’s government in 2008.

All the three times, governors took over smoothly from the civil regimes but invariably landed in a whirlpool. It took months or years to restore order.