Commentary: Hope returns to Kashmir after elections, but ultimate power still belongs to Modi’s government
Referendum
With the opposition winning, some believed the election to be a de facto referendum on the territory’s special status which was taken away by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019, says a Flinders University lecturer. ADELAIDE, Australia: This year’s local elections in India’s northernmost territory of Jammu and Kashmir were the first since the national government controversially stripped the region of its semi-autonomous status in 2019. It’s also the first local election in Muslim-majority
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