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SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Leaders of Kashmir’s biggest political party were sworn into office Wednesday to run a largely powerless government after the first local election since India stripped the disputed region of its special status five years ago.
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. They were also the first local elections in Muslim-majority Kashmir since 2014.
National Conference-led alliance wins 48 seats in 90-seat assembly in first state legislative elections in a decade.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Kashmir’s biggest political party on Tuesday won most seats in the local election for a largely powerless local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir, official data showed, in a vote seen as a referendum against the 2019 move by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that stripped the disputed region of its special status.
In Kashmir and Punjab, candidates jailed for being alleged national security threats have won. What does that say?