A common fear is that the BJP plans to settle hundreds of thousands of retired soldiers in the valley, or to build segregated colonies to house returning Pandits.For now, however, the BJP's priority appears to be to push aside Congress as the decisive outside party in Kashmir and to become acceptable to Kashmiris in future elections.
Mr. McGreevey's win was so decisive that party leaders were quick to cast the victory as a mandate, and on Monday, Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was already proclaiming that the opinion polls were a "referendum on the Republicans' stale ideas".
The big claim made for first past the post by its defenders is that it produces decisive single-party governments.
Yet strong, stable, decisive, single-party government, we are told again and again, is the great advantage of our first-past-the-post electoral system.
He won over a majority of the shadow cabinet, whose members voted by 17 to 11 against the strikes; he won support among two thirds of Labour MPs, with 66 voting for airstrikes against Isis in Syria; and opinion polls have shown a decisive majority of party members oppose the airstrikes.
Far from being a Republican endorsement, Fortuño's dramatic electoral victory last November, giving the right-wing flank of the Pro-Statehood party decisive control of Puerto Rico's House and Senate, was no more than voters punishing the previous party in power during an economic crisis.
On Tuesday, New Yorkers, Californians and voters in nine other states have the unusual opportunity of participating in presidential primary elections that could be decisive in their parties' nominating contests.
They might also be decisive in ensuring the party has its two-thirds majority.
Markets have cheered on Mr. Abe's economic turn, and rallied on Monday after his party's decisive victory.
From there begins a decisive year for the party, with regional, municipal and general elections taking place across the country.
