India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party said on Monday it would remove decades-old special rights for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, making an election promise that could provoke a backlash in the country’s volatile only Muslim majority state.
“We believe that Article 35A is an obstacle in the development of the state,” the BJP manifesto said, referring to the 1954 amendment to the constitution. Modi has made his strong stance on national security a key part of the BJP’s election campaign, following a recent flare-up in tensions with arch-foe Pakistan, which also lays claims to Kashmir.
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