NEW DELHI — The Congress on Friday took a swipe at Home Minister Amit Shah over the government’s policy on Jammu and Kashmir, asking when full statehood would be restored and why the security situation there had “deteriorated under your watch”. Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh also asked why the Centre was attempting […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said the BJP has succeeded in reducing the resolution of the Kashmir issue to the conduct of Assembly polls in the Union Territory. “The BJP has succeeded in reducing the Kashmir issue — for which thousands have died, thousands were orphaned and we suffered losses of billions […]
SRINAGAR — “Before we listen to you, you have to listen to us,” 42-year-old Muzaffar Ahmad Magray tells Waheed ur Rehman Parra as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Pulwama Assembly seat alights from his vehicle on a campaign stop. It is a cloudy morning in the village of Renzipora village in Pulwama’s Awantipora […]
JAMMU — Union Home Minister Amit Shah will launch the BJP’s poll campaign and release the party’s manifesto here during his two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir beginning Friday. The Union minister’s arrival in Jammu comes at a critical time for the BJP in the Union territory as the party faces growing challenges ahead of […]
SRINAGAR — An election of firsts in Jammu and Kashmir is set to see another – a woman Kashmiri Pandit will be contesting the Assembly polls for the first time in three decades. Daisy Raina, who used to work at a private company in Delhi and has been a sarpanch of Frisal village in Pulwama, […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Friday claimed that the BJP-ruled Centre was fielding independent candidates against him in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections in a bid to silence him. “I always knew that Delhi would want to silence me in some way but I never thought that they would go […]
JAMMU — So far, 14 Kashmiri Pandits have filed nominations to contest from the valley for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, aiming to ensure the return and rehabilitation of their fellow community members, whose number run up to 3 lakh. Srinagar’s Habba Kadal assembly constituency has virtually turned into an electoral battlefield for […]
NEW DELHI — As Jammu and Kashmir gears up for the upcoming assembly polls, Union Minister Amit Shah is set to launch the Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto on Friday as he leaves for a two-day visit to the territory. Elections in Jammu and Kashmir are scheduled in three phases, which will be conducted on September […]
JAMMU — BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav on Thursday said the next government in Jammu and Kashmir will be of “nationalist people” and “not anti-nationals”. The BJP leader made this assertion as he blamed the National Conference and the PDP for using former militants in their campaigning and the family members of separatists to […]
NEW DELHI — The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday released its list of star campaigners for the second phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, which is scheduled to be held on September 25. The list of star campaigners includes party’s prominent leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister […]