The Home Minister assured the Rajya Sabha, 3 months before, that “normalcy” had been restored in Jammu and Kashmir. Yet, 3 main leaders of the Jammu and Kashmir- Omar Abdullah, Farookh Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have been slapped with the Public Safety Act and are under detention for more than 200 days. Farookh Abdullah, under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government, defended India’s position on Kashmir to the world, as Minister of State for External Affairs. As Minister of State for External Affairs in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government. But now, according to the Public Safety Act dossier prepared by the J&K administration, he stands accused of coddling militants and mobilising the people of Kashmir to defy Pakistan-backed militants and vote in elections. Just like Mr. Abdullah, Mufti has also been deemed “anti-national”. She ran J&K as Chief Minister with her party in alliance with the BJP for three years. Broadening the zone of normalcy It used to be