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Turnout in the first round of polls in Jammu and Kashmir is reported to have been high. The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP is trying to win power for the first time in a state which has over a million voters.

Voting for the Muslim-majority state's 87-seat assembly is being held in five phases with results due on 23 December.

In this extract 麻豆社 Radio Stoke presenter Ajmal Hussain speaks to Simona Vittorini, an expert in South Asian politics from the University of London.