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 — 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 […]
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 […]
NEW DELHI — Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra on Sunday said the assembly polls are not just about forming a government or adjusting leaders in the dispensation but about “restoration of statehood and powers of the assembly” as well as “our lost dignity”. Karra was also non-committal on whether the chief minister […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said the BJP top brass was focussing its election campaign on Jammu as they want to “intimidate” the Hindu voters of Jammu and Kashmir by creating false fears. He also accused the BJP of misleading the people by claiming that terrorism will rise again if the […]
NEW DELHI — BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Saturday said that National Conference leader Omar Abdullah’s remarks about the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was an “expose of their nefarious, nasty, separatist anti-national design”. Trivedi also targeted the Congress, an alliance partner of the NC in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election, […]
NEW DELHI — Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) leader Omar Abdullah said that the visit of US diplomats to Kashmir was only possible with the approval of the Indian government. He said that no foreign diplomat or media person can enter Jammu and Kashmir without the permission of the ministries under the government of […]
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 […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah on Thursday filed his nomination papers to contest the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls from Budgam. “Omar Abdullah filed his nomination for the Budgam constituency for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls,” an NC spokesperson said here. Abdullah was accompanied by senior NC leaders Aga Ruhullah Mehdi, […]