SRINAGAR — The Centre has so far deployed nearly 300 companies of paramilitary forces for election duties in the Kashmir valley, officials said on Tuesday. The companies have been deputed in Srinagar, Handwara, Ganderbal, Budgam, Kupwara, Baramulla, Bandipora, Anantnag, Shopian, Pulwama, Awantipora, and Kulgam, they said. As many as 298 companies of paramilitary forces, including […]
SRINAGAR — Newly-appointed Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra on Tuesday said the doors of his party are open for pre-poll alliance in the Union territory with parties opposing BJP’s policies and way of its functioning. He also accused the BJP of destroying the “communal fabric” of the “mini-India” due to its policies […]
SRINAGAR — The Election Commission on Tuesday issued notification for the first phase of the three-phased assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir in which 24 segments will go to polls on September 18. With the issuance of the notification, the nomination process for the candidates has started. The last date for making nominations for the […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah on Monday said his party would approach the Supreme Court if the Centre fails to restore the statehood to Jammu and Kashmir. “The reality is that we have a fight on our hands to get our powers back and we have no doubt that we will succeed. At […]
NEW DELHI — The Congress is open to talks with like-minded parties to strike a “respectable alliance” for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls but the parameters for such a tie-up would be different from the Lok Sabha elections, party’s newly-appointed J&K chief Tariq Hameed Karra said on Monday. In an interview with PTI, Karra […]
SRINAGAR — The National Conference will announce its candidates for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir after the notification for the first phase of the three-phased polls, the party’s vice president Omar Abdullah said here on Sunday. The notification for the first phase is scheduled to be issued on August 20. Polling is scheduled […]
JAMMU — The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will not form any pre-poll alliance in Jammu and Kashmir, state party president Ravinder Raina said here. He, however, said discussions are ongoing with 8 to 10 independents in the Kashmir valley for contesting the elections together. He said the party is fully geared up for Assembly elections […]
SRINAGAR — Congress leader Alka Lamba on Sunday said the party leadership will take a call on an alliance with the regional parties in Jammu and Kashmir for the Assembly elections. “We had an alliance in the Lok Sabha polls and won two out of three in Kashmir. Now, on the decision of an alliance […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Saturday chaired a meeting of party functionaries and discussed matters related to the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, political affairs and the organisation, a day after the schedule for the polls was announced by the Election Commission. Issues being faced by the people of Jammu […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday announced schedule for Assembly Election in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The Jammu and Kashmir will witness Assembly Election after 10 years as Assembly Election will be held for the first time since the Abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu […]
