Political activity in Jammu & Kashmir can only begin if political activity in the rest of the country offers an alternative to the BJP’s view on Kashmir, former PDP member & finance minister of J&K Haseeb Drabu tells ThePrint’s National Affairs editor Jyoti Malhotra. Drabu pointed to how Farooq Abdullah took up from the Vijaywada conclave in 1983 organized by NTR and invited Opposition leaders to Kashmir and rallied them to come together to spur politics in the region. Like every Kashmiri, Drabu said he was shocked and humiliated at the revocation of Article 370 and asked why, if civil society in India could organize a protest in Shaheen Bagh in Delhi, why it couldn’t it do one on the significance of August 5, 2019? Drabu said the truth of the matter is that there is no other view on Kashmir today than that of the BJP and that Opposition parties, including the Congress, are happy to go along with the BJP.