India’s Hindu nationalist ruling party vowed on Monday to take back decades-old special rights from the people of Jammu and Kashmir, making an election promise that can provoke a backlash in the country’s only Muslim-majority state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is widely expected to retain power after a general election that […]
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India’s Congress promises to halve unemployment; Kashmir plan criticised
India’s main opposition Congress party made election pledges on Tuesday to halve unemployment in five years, but its promise to change a law on special powers for troops in disputed Kashmir drew criticism from the ruling party. Congress has consistently trailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in opinion polls, despite […]