The abrogation of Article 370 that removed the special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), along with the political devaluation of the state to a Union Territory was done on the pretext of ushering in a ‘new dawn’ for the region, or as they called it, “Naya Kashmir”. This tall claim relied on a presumptuous idea that Article 370 had been the root of all problems in J&K, a misinformed narrative that has long been propagated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).