SRINAGAR — Preparations are underway in Srinagar ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election rally scheduled for Thursday. The first phase of three-phase assembly elections in the Union Territory will be held on September 18. 24 Assembly constituencies across the Union Territory will go to polls in the first phase. Sharing the details, Bharatiya Janata […]
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Final Campaign Push: Ram Madhav backs BJP candidates in Pulwama’s key constituencies
PULWAMA [Mudasir Maqbool] (KIMS) — Ram Madhav, the BJP’s J&K election in-charge, visited South Kashmir’s Pulwama district to campaign for the party’s candidates as the first phase of the J&K Assembly elections approached its final day of campaigning. With star campaigners rallying support across the valley, Ram Madhav’s focus was on two key constituencies in […]
Security beefed up ahead of PM Modi’s election rally in Srinagar
SRINAGAR — The area around the Sher-e-Kashmir park here has been put under a multi-layer security blanket ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election rally scheduled for Wednesday, a senior police official said. This will be Modi’s first rally for BJP candidates in Kashmir before the assembly elections in the Union territory later this month. […]
J&K polls: Kashmiri Pandits urge action on longstanding issues, say politicians see us merely as voters
SRINAGAR — With the first phase of assembly elections set to be held on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir, the Kashmiri Pandit community is raising urgent calls for action on their long-standing issues of unemployment and housing. Nearly 35 years after the mass exodus of 1990, many in the community feel that political parties have […]
J&K gears up for phase 1 polls, seven districts to vote after a decade
SRINAGAR/JAMMU — Seven districts of Jammu and Kashmir, located on either side of Pir Panjal mountain range, will vote for the first time in an assembly election in 10 years as the stage is set for phase 1 polling in the union territory on Wednesday. Over 23 lakh voters will decide the fate of 219 […]
Congress will ensure J&K gets back statehood: Mallikarjun Kharge
NEW DELHI — Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said his party guarantees the rights of Jammu and Kashmir and will ensure it gets back the status of a full-fledged state. Tagging screenshots of the seven guarantees promised by the Congress ahead of the assembly elections, Kharge said in a post on X that the […]
Ahead of polls, election officials left for designated polling stations in Ramban with EVMs
JAMMU — Polling parties of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Tuesday left for their designated polling stations with electronic voting machines (EVMs) ahead of the first phase of polling on September 18. Twenty-four assembly constituencies across the UT will go to polls in the first phase, scheduled for September 18. Speaking to the Deputy […]
BJP’s 10 years development work in J&K more that work done in last 70 years: Kavinder Gupta
JAMMU — The former Deputy Chief Minister, Kavinder Gupta, on Monday said that the development done in Jammu and Kashmir by BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last 10 years is far more than the development done in the last 70 years. “In the past ten years, infrastructure development has transformed […]
High-stakes campaigning ends in Rajpora: Mudasir Hassan and Ghulam Mohiuddin Mir in tight race
PULWAMA [Yawar Rashid] (KIMS) — Campaigning for the Rajpora assembly seat concluded on Monday evening, with all contesting candidates making their final push to woo voters. The constituency will go to the polls on Wednesday in the first phase of the elections. Candidates organized a series of programs on the final day of campaigning, including […]
“Ten-year election gap in J&K left the state far behind”, says Ghulam Nabi Azad
JAMMU — Ahead of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Democratic Progressive Azad Party Chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the ten-year gap in election in Jammu and Kashmir has left the state far behind in development. Speaking to ANI, Ghulam Nabi Azad said “I strongly oppose the fact that elections were held after ten […]









