NEW DELHI — Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday urged the people of Jammu and Kashmir to vote in large numbers in the third and final phase of the assembly polls in the union territory and “teach a lesson” to those who snatched statehood from them. Voting for the third phase is underway in 40 […]
NEW DELHI — Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday termed as “unacceptable” the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and other Ladakhis, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have to listen to Ladakh’s voice. Around 120 people from Ladakh, including Wangchuk — who had marched to the national […]
JAMMU — Accusing the Congress of speaking in different voices on Article 370, Union minister Jitendra Singh on Monday dared the opposition party to declare that they will restore it in Jammu and Kashmir if they return to power. Singh, minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), also hit out at the Congress […]
NEW DELHI — Amid the ongoing Jammu and Kashmir polls, a video of a teary-eyed woman seemingly confronting Rahul Gandhi on an airplane has been widely shared on social media with some users claiming that she was a Kashmiri Pandit living abroad who questioned the Congress leader for opposing the PM over Kashmir’s matters. A […]
NEW DELHI — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday termed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public meeting in Jammu and Kashmir “absolutely distasteful and disgraceful”. Shah said “a bitter display of spite”, Kharge unnecessarily dragged the prime minister into his personal health matters by saying that he […]
JASROTA — Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge vowed to fight for the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that he would remain active in politics until Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ousted from power. Kharge’s remarks came amid criticism of the BJP-led government at the Centre for its handling of the Union territory, particularly […]
JAMMU — As the third phase of the Jammu and Kashmir elections approaches, Ghulam Ahmad Mir, the Congress candidate from the Dooru constituency, stated on Saturday that the Bharatiya Janata Party is unlikely to secure more than 10-12 seats in Jammu. Mir emphasized the strength of the alliance between the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference […]
JAMMU — The Congress will restore Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Saturday while she slammed the BJP for using the Union territory as a pawn to “stir emotions” elsewhere in the country. Gandhi, the Congress’s national general secretary, also criticised Lt Governor Manoj Sinha saying the current administration was […]
KATHUA — Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district goes to polls with battle lines clearly drawn between the Congress and the BJP across all six seats with focus on the Basholi Assembly constituency, where three-time MLA and two-time MP Choudhary Lal Singh faces a herculean task to reclaim his traditional stronghold for the fourth time. Famous […]
SRINAGAR — Former chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday claimed that the National Conference-Congress alliance has been able to keep BJP at bay in the first two phases of polling in Jammu and Kashmir. “We (alliance) have foiled the efforts of the BJP at government formation in the first two phases of polling. We now […]