Nearly 9 million people are registered to vote for the 90-member legislative assembly, the election panel said.
NEW DELHI - India will hold provincial elections in the Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir from Sept 18, the Election Commission said on Aug 16, the first regional polls there in a decade and five years afterThe larger Kashmir region is divided between India, Pakistan and China. The part ruled by India enjoyed a special status that was revoked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 and the state was split into two federally administered territories.
His government has since unveiled multiple projects to boost the local economy while tourism has boomed. India blames Pakistan for training, funding and pushing Islamist militants into its part of Kashmir from across a ceasefire line, with a spate of recent attacks targeting the Hindu-dominated Jammu area more than the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley.
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