Farcical Elections in Kashmir Followed By Massacre
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Kashmir Massacre
INDIA recently dismissed the UNHCHR report into human rights violations in Kashmir as a fabrication. But recent local body elections in Kashmir as well as a massacre of civilians have once again exposed the Modi Government’s and BJP’s lies about Kashmir.
BJP claims to have swept local body polls in J&K - but the truth is that the BJP has lost ground in Jammu and Ladakh and its ‘victory’ in the Kashmir Valley is at a time when voting was at all-time low and the two main local parties, NC and PDP, are boycotting the elections in protest against the Modi Government’s stand on Article 35A.
The voter turnout in the the 4% voter turnout – the lowest since 1951 and worse even than the 5.18% turnout in the 1989 elections at the height of the mili...