Vote in the valley: Kashmir and Delhi prepare for assembly polls

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Farooq Abdullah, leader of the muslim National Conference party in Kashmir, has announced that his party will run for all 87 state-assembly seats to be contested in the Kashmir elections in September 1996. Muslim participation will add legitimacy to the elections, which are the first to be held in the war-torn region since 1987. India has attempted to hold elections in Kashmir in prior years, but violence made elections impossible. Abdullah accepts continued Indian rule of Kashmir but advocates state autonomy on all matters except foreign affairs, communications and defense.

Political activity, Elections, Hindu-Muslim relations, Abdullah, Farooq

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Promises, promises; government struggles to find its feet

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The composition of India's new government resembles the diversity of the country's population. For the first time, the government is not dominated by a ruling party based in Northern India and H. D. Deve Gowda is the first prime minister who does not speak Hindi. Internal conflicts within the new coalition delayed the release of the government's new economic platform raising questions about its ability to govern effectively. The government will continue to support free market reforms, transfer central ruling powers to the states and fight poverty.

Coalition governments

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Promises, promises: will Rao keep his pledge to hold polls in Kashmir?

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Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao called on Nov 4, 1995 for elections in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, in an effort to set the stage for national polls due by mid-1996. Separatist violence has long wracked the northern state, but a similar move restored peace to the Punjab state in 1992, and a repeat success could lead to victory for Rao's Congress Party. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party calls the plan a cave-in to the separatists, while Kashmiri groups label it inadequate and the National Conference threatens to boycott the election.

National liberation movements, Jammu and Kashmir, India (State)

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