(8 Oct 2024)
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Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir – 8 October 2024
1. Wide of supporters of National Conference (NC) lighting firecrackers as they celebrate a win in the elections
2. Various of supporters of NC dancing
3. Women dancing
4. Cutaway NC flag
5. Tilt down from NC flags to women dancing
6. JKNC vehicle procession after their victory
7. Mushtaq Guroo, winning candidate of NC, greeting people after his win
8. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mushtaq Guroo, National Conference (NC) winning candidate:
"I feel very proud. We have won with the blessings and love of the people. The people have once again chosen the National Conference because they know that only the National Conference can solve their problems."
9. SOUNDBITE (Kashmiri) Muhammad Sikander Bhat, NC supporter:
"We have faced repression, the BJP government did the same. Now we unitedly voted against this repression and elected the National Conference. I am hopeful that the National Conference will remain steadfast."
10. Various of supporters of NC and the Indian National Congress shouting slogans as they celebrate
STORYLINE:
Kashmir’s biggest political party opposed to India’s stripping of the region’s semi-autonomy won the most seats in a local election, official data showed Tuesday.
Supporters of National Conference danced in the streets of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, to celebrate.
National Conference, or NC, won 42 seats, mainly from the Kashmir Valley, the heartland of the anti-India rebellion, according to the data.
The vote was seen as a referendum against the move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party secured 29 seats, all from the Hindu-dominated areas of Jammu.
The vote will allow Kashmir to have its own truncated government and a regional legislature, called an assembly, rather than being directly under New Delhi’s rule.
However, there will be a limited transition of power from New Delhi to the assembly as Kashmir will remain a “union territory” — directly controlled by the federal government — with India’s Parliament as its main legislator.
Kashmir’s statehood must be restored for the new government to have powers similar to other states of India.
AP Video by Meraj Ud Din
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