A.B. Bardhan, former General Secretary, CPI, in a public meeting organised by the Centre for Policy Analysis, fears of the entire Kashmir becoming a police state if the J&K government passes the proposed Police Bill

Prakash Karat, General Secretary, CPI (M), in a public meeting organised by the Centre for Policy Analysis, condemns the Police Bill proposed by the J&K government as draconian and anti-democratic as it will provide the same impunity to the J&K police that the Indian Army enjoys under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

Newsclick discusses with Shankar Raghuraman, Senior Journalist, the election results in three North-Eastern states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya. He says the results are a bad news for the Congress Party. Its influence is gradually declining in this region which was its traditional stronghold. Tripura has elected the Left Front to power for the fifth consecutive term, largely because of the participatory politics it practised. The Naga People's Front has won the majority in Nagaland and in Meghalaya, the Congress Party got the majority.

Newsclick interview Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau Member, CPI(M), on the ordinance issued by the Government on the issue of sexual violence against women. The interview tries to look at the relevance of the ordinance and whether the Justice Verma Committee recommendations have in fact been addressed in this Ordinance.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah says he wants the Armed Forces Powers Act revoked in some parts of Jammu and Kashmir.

Prof. Gul Mohammad Wani of Kashmir University and Shujaat Bukhari, senior journalist based in Srinagar talk about the response of the Indian state over the past year following widespread protests in the Kashmir valley featuring youth pelting stones at security establishments. They identify a major trust deficit among Kashmiris about the Indian state and suggest that the Indian state should work towards overcoming the deep alienation by addressing issues related to human rights violations. The promising headway in working toward a political solution in the mid 2000s by engaging with Pakistan and other political actors in Kashmir should be used as a reference point as work is done to come to a "final political solution in Kashmir".