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Elections bring hope to India-controlled Kashmir

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Jammu and Kashmir is set to hold its first regional assembly elections in a decade .

The last such ballot was held in 2014 when Indian PM Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and the regional Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) formed a coalition government.

However, the coalition collapsed in 2018 when the BJP withdrew its support and took direct control of the region.

"They are significant because they are being held after a long time and people will get to elect their representatives, and also because this will serve as a message of how people are angry and rue the changes." But he warns those same changes mean that the government will have "little power." "Now people will decide whether they stand for changes or against them," he said. Edited by: Darko Janjevic Author: Rifat Fareed (in Anantnag ).