In Kashmir's separatist red zone, BJP gets support from former stone-pelters Baramulla: It was a chilly afternoon on January 10 when a group of young boys known only as stone-pelters and protestors from North Kashmir's Old-Town Baramulla, sat cross-legged in the carved wood and varnished hall of Dak Bungalow, Baramulla. There were no security personnel in sight to guard the meeting venue, no curious visitors, the silence surrounding the hall occasionally broken by the soft thuds of melting ice falling from the rooftop. A clean-shaven man in his early thirties started speaking from one end of an oval table. Restless boys with ambivalent faces, all from the much-feared Old Town area, giving a patient hearing to Ravinder Raina, the Jammu and Kashmir president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the BJP's youth wing. http://www.firstpost.com/politics/in-kashmirs-separatist-red-zone-bjp-gets-support-from-former-stone-pelters-1372975.htmlIn Kashmir's separatist red zone, BJP gets support from former stone-pelterswww.firstpost.comIn the 2008 Assembly elections, only 56 out of an estimated 50,000 voters in Old Town exercised their franchise. Being part of a political party here can invite death.

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