SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Monday disassociated itself from the “derogatory remarks” made by senior party leader Vikar Rasool Wani against its alliance partner National Conference (NC). JKPCC president Tariq Hameed Karra strongly condemns the derogatory remarks and unparliamentary language used by Congress leader and its candidate from Banihal, Vikar […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has withdrawn its support for senior leader Taj Mohiuddin in Uri constituency after Apni Party extended its support to him.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 […]
JAMMU — Ahead of legislative assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, security measures have been increased in the Rajouri region of the union territory to create a safe and fear-free environment for voters to cast their votes. As per the Senior Superintendent of Police of Rajouri, Randeep Kumar, the Jammu and Kashmir police, the army […]
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 — As the polling dates for the maiden Assembly polls after abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir draws near, several organisations of the Kashmiri Pandit community has decided to refrain from the electoral process in the Union Territory over “persistent denial of their genocide”. The decision to abstain from the polling was […]
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 […]