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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Rupam Jain and Kanupriya Kapoor

How India's ruling party is tightening its grip on Kashmir

FILE PHOTO: People row their boats in the waters of Dal Lake with the backdrop of snow-covered mountains after a snowfall in Srinagar December 12, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Ismail/File Photo

For the first time in her life, Asha, a street cleaner in the Indian city of Jammu, will be allowed to vote in upcoming local elections. And she's in no doubt who will get her ballot.

Asha plans to reward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for scrapping policies in place for decades that denied her and a million more people in the region of Jammu and Kashmir many of the same rights as other Indians.

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