Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the recently held DDC elections in Jammu and Kashmir marked a new chapter and strengthened India’s democracy.
“In each phase of the elections, I saw young and old and women come out to vote in spite of the cold and the coronavirus situation,” he said.
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Referring to the BJP’s alliance with Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples Democratic Party in 2014, Modi said that the saffron party broke the alliance as it wanted that elections to local bodies be held.