DHAKA: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to bring prosperity to Indian Kashmir and told people not to be intimidated against voting, as he hit the campaign trail Monday after a string of attacks in the region.

Modi’s Hindu nationalist party is making an unprecedented bid for power in the Muslim-majority region, where tensions are high following the killing of 11 soldiers and police in an attack last Friday.

His right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been campaigning aggressively in staggered state elections that began last month, promising to bring security and development to a region that has suffered almost three decades of violence.

‘Just look back at the last 30 years. What have you got? Nothing,’ Modi told a campaign rally in the main city Srinagar, which was under virtual lockdown with thousands of extra troops deployed, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 2110 HRS, DEC 08, 2014