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India vote a chance for Kashmiris to signal opposition to Modi / 34R32U7
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Images of recent political rallies held in Kashmir's Srinagar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, the BJP, is not fielding any candidates in any of the Kashmir valley's three seats for the first time since 1996. "They want to save face," says political analyst and historian Sidiq Wahid.
"They would lose, simple as that. And what would be the party's objective in that?"
The vote is shaping up as an opportunity for residents to express widespread frustration with a heavy troop presence and eroding freedoms since Modi's government ended the Muslim-majority territory's special constitutional status. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES