SRINAGAR — Police here on Friday prevented a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) march against the passage of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, barricading the party office and restricting the protestors within the premises. Led by party general secretary Khurshid Alam, scores of PDP workers had assembled at the party headquarters near the Sher-e-Kashmir Park here […]
JAMMU — AAP on Thursday held demonstrations against the PDP and the BJP over a scuffle involving its MLA Mehraj Malik with legislators of the saffron party in the assembly complex in Jammu. Led by Malik and carrying placards against the BJP and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), AAP activists demanded action against those who […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday urged the Jammu and Kashmir assembly to pass a resolution, rejecting the amendments to the Waqf Act passed by Parliament. Wednesday is the last day of the Budget session of the assembly. “With today possibly marking the end of this assembly session the ruling alliance should prioritise […]
JAMMU — PDP MLA from Pulwama Waheed Ur Rehman Para was marshalled out of the J&K Assembly after he pressed for a fresh resolution against the Waqf (Amendment) Act on Tuesday. The Assembly witnessed pandemonium for the second straight day on the issue, prompting Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather to initially adjourn the House for 30 […]
JAMMU — PDP MLA Waheed Ur Rehman Para has received Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s nod to move in the House on Tuesday a private members bill for regularisation of ad hoc, daily wagers, need-based and other temporary workers on Tuesday. On March 11, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced the formation of a […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples’ Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused the National Conference government of yielding to the BJP’s “anti-Muslim” agenda, after an adjournment motion on the Waqf Amendment Act was rejected in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. Lashing out at Omar Abdullah, she said Muslims in the country expected that a Muslim chief […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday termed the rejection of the adjournment motion on the Waqf Amendment Act “profoundly disappointing” and accused the National Conference government of yielding to the BJP’s “anti-Muslim” agenda. “It’s profoundly disappointing that the speaker J&K Assembly has rejected the motion on the Waqf Bill. Despite […]
JAMMU — PDP’s leader of the House in the J&K Assembly Waheed Ur Rehman Para has written a letter to Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather, questioning allowing three private members’ resolutions on restoration of statehood in the concluding phase of the budget session that is scheduled to commence on Monday after a 12-day recess. He also […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti Friday lashed out at the ruling National Conference, saying it was focusing on who between them and the Lieutenant Governor is empowered to transfer officials rather than taking a stand on issues that really matter. Mufti accused Chief Minister Omar Abdullah-led government of “surrendering” before New […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Democratic Party leader Waheed Para on Friday criticised the ruling National Conference, saying the party was focusing on powers to transfer officers instead of resisting the changes enforced post August 2019. On August 5, 2019, the Union government had scrapped Article 370, which granted special powers to the erstwhile state of Jammu […]
