‘Ultimate betrayal of nation’: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar attacks those who ‘consider Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir permanent’ | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday cautioned citizens against compromising on nationalism, terming it “the ultimate betrayal to the nation”. “Wherever anyone threatens the integrity of the nation, we must not tolerate it … Today there is a need for ideological tenacity, purity of basic thoughts and propagation of national sentiment,” said Dhankar…

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‘Second time my father was forced to release terrorists’: Omar Abdullah on how Rubaiya Syed kidnapping set a ‘benchmark’ for IC814 hijack | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah revealed that 1999 IC814 hijacking incident was not the first time his father Farooq Abdullah was compelled to release individuals, drawing parallels to the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Syed, daughter of then-home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.“This is the second time my father was forced to…

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‘Ex-militants openly campaigning … ‘: BJP’s Ram Madhav targets NC, PDP | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: BJP leader Ram Madhav on Wednesday levelled a big charge against the Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Farooq Abdullah‘s National Conference (NC), claiming that both the parties have the backing of ex-militants for the upcoming assembly polls.Madhav, who is BJP’s in-charge for J&K assembly elections, said both parties want to take…

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Party was ready to contest all seats, but alliance with NC was ‘national compulsion’, says Congress’ J&K chief | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Tariq Hameed Karra, the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee chief, on Saturday said that the party was ready to contest all 90 seats in the upcoming assembly polls independently. But, the alliance with the National Conference was formed under a “national compulsion”, he added. He asserted that the alliance was forged to…

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‘It was not easy decision’: Omar Abdullah on NC’s ‘sacrifice’ for pre-poll alliance with Congress in J&K | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Friday said that forming a pre-poll alliance with Congress for the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir was a challenging decision for the party. He added that to ally, the party had to “sacrifice” many seats where it believed it had a chance of…

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BJP moves to scuttle Congress-NC pledge to revise post-Article 370 quotas in J&K | India News – Times of India

SRINAGAR: BJP has positioned itself to defend the “rights granted to marginalised communities in J&K”, as a joint manifesto by the Congress-National Conference (NC) alliance for the assembly polls promised revisions and rollback of the reservation policy for ST/SC and other backward classes (OBC) instituted after the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the…

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‘Risking nation’s unity’: Amit Shah attacks Congress over tie-up with NC for J&K assembly polls | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday slammed the National Conference (NC) and Congress alliance for the upcoming assembly election in Jammu & Kashmir and demanded that the grand old party to clarify its stance on reservations for Dalits and other backward castes in the state, which its ally partner has vowed to…

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Pact with Congress, CPM final for 90 Jammu & Kashmir seats: Farooq | India News – Times of India

SRINAGAR: National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah announced Thursday that his party and Congress have finalised an alliance for the three-phase J&K assembly elections from September 8 to Oct 1. The decision followed discussions with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Lok Sabha leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi, who are on a two-day visit to…

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