Kashmir cold to Modi’s visit

Residents complain of poor flood relief and police harassment of youth The ruling political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party and the BJP, might be upbeat about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir on November 7, but on the streets there is a distinct lack of enthusiasm. Javaid Ahmad, a resident of Srinagar’s Jawahar Nagar area, whose three-storey house got damaged in the 2014 September floods, has received not much relief from the government and blames the Centre for this. “We were asked to go through a lot…

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