SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has withdrawn its support for senior leader Taj Mohiuddin in Uri constituency after Apni Party extended its support to him. The PDP states that it will now field their own candidate for the upcoming elections from Uri constituency. Confirming the development to the news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO), […]
SRINAGAR — The Apni Party on Monday announced support to former Jammu and Kashmir minister Taj Mohiuddin, who is contesting as an independent candidate from Uri assembly segment in Baramulla district. The support was announced by Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari at a press conference here. “The Apni Party has decided to back Mohiuddin. We […]
ANANTNAG — president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused jailed MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party of being a proxy of the BJP, and warned the people of Jammu and Kashmir not to come under the influence of such parties. Her remarks came a day after PDP candidate from south Kashmir’s Shopian assembly segment Yawar […]
WASHINGTON — Love, respect and humility are missing in Indian politics, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said in his address to the Indian American community in Texas, where he also criticised the RSS for believing that India is “one idea”. Mr Gandhi made the remarks on Sunday in Dallas during his first interaction with Indian […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Sunday said the Central government led by the BJP has failed in controlling militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. “If anything, it is the present government which has failed to control militancy in Jammu and Kashmir,” Abdullah told reporters in Shopian district. He was reacting to Union Home […]
JAMMU — Undaunted by three straight poll losses in Doda, Khalid Najeeb Suharwardy of the National Conference will be trying his luck again from the seat in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. Suharwardy’s father Attaullah Suharwardy won the seat twice in 1987 and 1996. A year later when Attaullah Suharwardy died, his son […]
JAMMU — Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked the residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to come and join India as “we consider you our own unlike Pakistan which treats you as foreigners”. Addressing an election rally in the Ramban assembly constituency in support of BJP candidate Rakesh Singh Thakur, the Union minister asserted there […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said the National Conference forged an alliance with Congress, its nemesis, in the 1980s, only after her late father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed turned the national party into a viable option in the valley. Addressing an election rally in Kokernag assembly segment of Anantnag district, Mufti recalled the […]
NEW DELHI — Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra on Sunday said the assembly polls are not just about forming a government or adjusting leaders in the dispensation but about “restoration of statehood and powers of the assembly” as well as “our lost dignity”. Karra was also non-committal on whether the chief minister […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said the BJP top brass was focussing its election campaign on Jammu as they want to “intimidate” the Hindu voters of Jammu and Kashmir by creating false fears. He also accused the BJP of misleading the people by claiming that terrorism will rise again if the […]