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 […]
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 — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, criticised National Conference leader Omar Abdullah for contesting on two seats for the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. “Omar Abdullah was reiterating one thing from the last 3-4 years, that he would not contest elections till […]
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, […]
GANDERBAL — National conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Wednesday filed nomination papers from the Ganderbal assembly seat. Abdullah, accompanied by senior leaders of the party and his sons, filed the papers before the returning officer at the Mini-Secretariat here. He reached the mini-secretariat sitting atop a vehicle, surrounded by a huge number of enthusiastic […]
JAMMU — Former senior National Conference (NC) leader and now BJP leader Devender Singh Rana claimed that Omar Abdullah met with BJP leaders Amit Shah and Ram Madhav in 2014 to request the formation of a government with NC. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devender Singh Rana, on Monday, told ANI, “Omar Abdullah is trying […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) Vice President Omar Abdullah said that ideology keeps changing as elections are approaching referring to several politicians joining the Mehbooba Mufti-led People’s Democratic Party. “I won’t go into that, ideology keeps changing. Elections are here, they are ready to contest. Whenever we faced elections, they (PDP) gave […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Monday said the decision of separatist leaders to join mainstream parties and contest elections in Jammu and Kashmir indicates an ideological change in the secessionist camp. “Earlier, they (separatists) would raise the boycott bogey whenever elections were held. Today they are contesting elections… It shows that […]