Kashmir elections provoke violence

June 6, 1983

At least 50 people were reported injured when violence erupted during voting in Kashmir's state assembly elections. Skirmishes broke out in a number of places and election officials said voting had been annulled in parts of three constituencies. The main election fight was between Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress Party (I) and the Kashmir-based National Conference Party, which has ruled the sensitive state for the past eight years.