Union home minister Amit Shah announced that two more Hurriyat Conference affiliates in Jammu and Kashmir have renounced separatism. The groups have embraced the vision of a new India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, signaling the decline of separatism in the region. Earlier, two Hurriyat affiliates had similarly abandoned separatism.
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