Kashmiris turn out to vote as BJP bids for power

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Voters line up to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly elections at Baba Nagri

By Fayaz Bukhari GANDERBAL (Reuters) – Voters lined up at polling stations in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, ignoring a boycott call by separatists, to elect an assembly that the ruling nationalists are hoping to take control of for the first time. Parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir, disputed between India and Pakistan, are usually marked by the country’s lowest turn-out and heavy militant violence, exacerbating tensions in a region where tens of thousands have died in a 25-year revolt. …

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