Indian PM Modi's party unlikely to form Jammu & Kashmir government - polls


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  • Sunday, 21 Dec 2014

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) waves to the crowd after he addressed an election campaign rally in Srinagar December 8, 2014. REUTERS/Danish Ismail

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party will not win enough seats to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir state, two exit polls showed on Saturday, dampening its hopes of taking control of the state for the first time.

Tens of thousands of people voted in the election, weary of decades of strife and lack of development in the Himalayan region, cause of two wars with neighbouring Pakistan which also claims the state. 

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