It was because of the support of the Congress that Sheikh Abdullah, who was one time an anti-national and would call the congressmen as "worms of a gutter", was reinstalled, in 1975 as Chief Minister. Rajiv Gandhi who had dubbed Farooq Abdullah a pro-Pak and a security threat for the country, entered into an agreement with the same Farooq and installed him as the Chief Minister. K ash mir went in the hands of the subversives because of this policy of "dislodge and install". The seriousness of the situation in K ash mir can be judged by those orders of militants under which people were directed not to pay taxes, not to deposit their money in nationalised banks, outsiders asked to deposit their passports with the militants, shopkeepers having to hoist green flags on their shops and M us lim women being told wear burqas (veils).
