On September 4, Rahul addressed multiple poll rallies in Jammu and Kashmir regions, where he claimed that the opposition I.N.D.I.A. bloc had psychologically defeated Prime Minister Narendra Modi who “has lost the confidence of people of the country.”

Voters queued outside polling stations in India's Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday to vote in the first provincial election being held in a decade in the Himalayan region that has grappled with years of militant violence.