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India: India’s Modi promises investments on Kashmir visit
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SRINAGAR, 25 April 2022, (TON): India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a public event in Indian-administered Kashmir on his first major trip since stripping the region’s limited autonomy two years ago and addressed thousands of his supporters to mark Panchayati Raj a day that commemorates grassroots democracy in India.
In his address at Palli village in Samba district in the southern city of Jammu, Modi said “it’s a proud moment that democracy has reached the grassroots level in Jammu and Kashmir.”
He added that more than 30,000 representatives are now running the village system on their own.
But analysts and opposition leaders say the disputed region is without an elected government since 2018 before the region’s special status was revoked by the Hindu nationalist government.
Elections for district and village councils were held in 2020 but critics say the local bodies have no power to legislate or amend laws in the region now directly run from New Delhi.
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