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India this week kicked off Jammu and Kashmir's first legislative elections in 10 years, with high turnout reported. It is the first time the disputed Himalayan territory has voted since India revoked its autonomous status five years ago, a change residents want to see reversed.

In the election campaign for the second phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, scheduled for September 25, the issues of inflation, unemployment, and development are dominating the discourse. 

In the 2014 assembly elections, when Jammu and Kashmir was still a state, the Bharatiya Janata Party got its highest tally of 25 out of 37 assembly seats. In 2019, the region lost its autonomy and was cleaved into two demoted union territories (Ladakh not having an elected assembly).

Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, has been the talk of the town ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. The Kashmiri politician, in jail for over five years in a terror funding case, won the Baramulla seat in the Lok Sabha polls with a big margin…

The assembly elections have brought political excitement back to Jammu and Kashmir.

In this special episode of Newsance, we look back at the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 and the stark difference between the media spectacle and the reality on ground zero. Jammu and Kashmir is headed for an assembly poll for the first time since the abrogation.  

Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande sits down with Iltija Mufti, PDP’s candidate from Bijbehara, ahead of the first Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections in 10 years.

In the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, set to take place after a 10-year hiatus, the political temperature has intensified with the entry of several local leaders previously accused of separatist leanings. Besides the candidates from mainstream parties like the National Conference and PDP, the polls will see Sheikh…

Farooq said that "BJP is trying to defame NC, but we will emerge victorious in the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and change the lives of the people". Read further on Dynamite News: