India, Feb. 11 -- This has got to be a first - Democratically elected leaders, who have been Chief Ministers and Union Ministers, labelled as traitors and, therefore, shaming the political wisdom and popular will that have gone into strengthening the Constitutional definition of our democracy as a "union of States." The Narendra Modi Government may have abrogated Article 370, demoted the status of Jammu and Kashmir to a Union Territory and promised to usher in development and peace long denied to it but cannot justify why it still relies on laws of the old regime to run it. Instead of using its mandated Central authority to set new legacies, it is still stuck in a tit-for-tat demonisation of the people and defanging the old political lead...