In August, the government said it expected to add 2.5 million voters to IIOJK’s rolls, which would swell the electorate by more than a third from 7.6 million now.
Kashmiris fear that any rule changes which add new voters would allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to alter the region’s makeup, stamping out a decades-long independence movement.
The BJP says its policies aim to benefit ordinary Kashmiris, but the region’s political parties do not see the measure in the same light.
“The BJP’s attempts to create religious and regional divisions between Jammu and Kashmir must be thwarted,” former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, who is president of the J&K Peoples Democratic Party, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
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