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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Conference president Sajad Lone on Monday launched a scathing attack on Lok Sabha member Sheikh Abdul Rashid, alleging that the latter was not in jail for the past two months. Lone said the timing of Rashid’s release from the Tihar jail smacked of a BJP plan. “This is the worst executed plan […]
SRINAGAR — The campaigning for the first phase of Jammu and Kashmir elections in 24 Assembly constituencies spread across seven districts of the Union Territory came to an end on Monday. The polling will be held on September 18. A total of 219 candidates are in the fray for the 24 constituencies of Anantnag, Anantnag […]
SRINAGAR — Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) candidate for the Pulwama assembly segment in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday joined the National Conference, a day after his party extended support to a former Jamaat-e-Islami member contesting from the seat. AIP led by Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer had on Sunday announced an alliance with former members […]
SRINAGAR — The Congress on Monday released its manifesto for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, promising to restore the Union Territory’s full statehood if elected. However, it remained silent on Article 370. The manifesto stated that it is the “sacred duty” of the Congress to fight “divisive forces” and for doing that, the party […]
JAMMU — The Jammu North assembly seat is set to witness a tough electoral battle between the BJP and the National Conference (NC), with BJP candidate and former minister Sham Lal Sharma making last-ditch efforts to sway voters in a bid to secure a hat-trick for his party. Undeterred by two consecutive poll losses in […]