New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday outlined his vision for a new, developed and prosperous Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh even as he hit out at "a handful" of people and separatists for attempting to play into Pakistan's hands to spoil the situation in the wake of the revocation of Article 370 granting special status to J&K.

Promising free, fair and transparent elections to the J&K Assembly, which has been made into a Union Territory, Modi said that Kashmir was the crown of India and the new moves on Kashmir signified the dawn of a new era in J&K.