PM Modi talks with Kashmir leaders

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 26, 2021 12:50 am

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met with Kashmir's leaders for the first time since the restive region's semi-autonomy was revoked, as he called for measures to speed up elections for the territory now under direct rule.

Modi's Hindu-nationalist government moved to bring India's only Muslim-majority state Jammu and Kashmir under greater central control in August 2019, splitting it into two territories - Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh - and detaining scores of local politicians.

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