Click to play videoSrinagar: Violence-free polls, high voter turnout and now a new alliance - India's most turbulent state is back to business after years of insurgency.
That’s perhaps the message the establishment is trying to send across to Pakistan engulfed in the post-26/11 war hysteria.
“People of J-K have expressed full faith in democracy which is a huge lesson to be learnt by our neighbour,” said Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
For the BJP, the Amranath row seems to have helped it touch the double digit mark. But ironically, the current arithmetic seems to have left it with no other option but to sit in the opposition.
The only solace it can draw is that this trend could well help it to improve its tally in the Jammu region in the General Elections.
"We will respect people's verdict,” said BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
It’s ironic that the two parties which contested the Amarnath land row to the hilt - the BJP and the PDP - increased their tally in the state Assembly but would in all probability be sitting in the opposition.
But the bigger question remains as to what would the Hurriyat Conference and the separatist forces do from here onwards.
The PDP has quietly occupied a lot of the political space left vacant by them.
Would the politics of boycott continue or Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and his aides rethink their strategy? An answer to this question could have lasting implications on the future of the terror-torn state.
India's political map
UPA: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Puducherry.
NDA: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Orissa, Punjab, Uttarakhand
CPM: Kerala, west Bengal and Tripura
BSP: Uttar Pradesh
MNF: Mizoram
SDF: Sikkim
Hung Assembly: Jammu and Kashmir
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