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India redrawing Kashmir assembly seats to ‘disempower Muslims’?

An Indian policeman walks past people queueing to cast their votes outside a polling station in Anantnag, Indian-administered Kashmir [File: Danish Ismail/Reuters]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has released a list of redrawn electoral constituencies in Indian-administered Kashmir, giving greater representation to the Muslim-majority region’s Hindu areas and drawing condemnation from political parties in the valley.

On May 5, a government-appointed delimitation commission announced 90 assembly constituencies for the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, excluding Ladakh, with 43 seats for Jammu and 47 for Kashmir.

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