The mandate of the just concluded elections is decisive for the National Conference as a political party, could pose difficulties for it as it runs the government and is potentially disruptive for the politics of Jammu and Kashmir. J&K is a complex region whose politics has just become more complicated. Apart from the historical alienation of the Valley from the Union, politics within the erstwhile state seems to have become completely polarised. The mandate is virtually along communal lines, which cannot augur well for either the state or the country. This election will go down in the electoral history of J&K as the one in which Muslims of J&K, who have never been a political category, have been made one. With Pir Panjal (Rajouri and Poonch) and Chenab Valley (Doda and Bhaderwah), administratively a part of Jammu province, voting largely for NC,the 75-year-old Dixon plan of dividing the state along the Chenab seems to have een resuscitated. With the elected representatives of the entire region of the Jammu plains not being in government, it should …