Jammu & Kashmir is inalienably part of India. The Union government’s abrogation of Article 370 makes that crystal clear, even though one legal scholar says abrogation means the state reverts to pre-1953 conditions, when its status was unclear. For the NDA, this is mere semantics as Kashmir belongs to India through the instrument of accession, a self-evident fact that needs no clarification. Prime Minister Narenda Modi even told the nation abrogation was holding back development and so it