The vote was Kashmir's first in a decade and the first since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government ...
Kashmir’s last assembly election was held in 2014, after which the Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, for the first time ruled in a coalition with the local Peoples Democratic Party.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Leaders of Kashmir’s biggest political party were sworn into office Wednesday to run a largely powerless government after the first election since India stripped the ...