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By Parvaiz BUKHARI Jammu (India) (AFP) – It has taken 77 years for Dev Raj to be able to vote in local elections in Indian-controlled Kashmir, and the Hindu elder is clear on who he will thank. “I will cast my vote, and happily, for Modi,” Raj said, referring to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Three-phased elections begin in the Muslim-majority region on September 18, Kashmir’s first regional assembly election in a decade — and the first since New Delhi imposed direct rule in 2019 — with 8.7 million eligible voters. Raj’s cas…
