JAMMU/SRINAGAR, India ¨C For the first time in her life, Asha, a street cleaner in the Indian city of Jammu, will be allowed to vote in upcoming local elections. And she¡¯s in no doubt as to who will get her ballot.
Asha plans to reward Prime Minister Narendra Modi¡¯s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for scrapping policies, in place for decades, that denied her and a million more people in the region of Jammu and Kashmir many of the same rights as other Indians.
¡°We have faced the humiliation silently, but Modi-ji has changed our lives forever,¡± she said, leaning on her broom. ¡°It¡¯s not just me and my children, future generations from our community in Jammu and Kashmir will vote for the BJP.¡±
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