Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a rally in Jammu, promised voters that a full-majority BJP government is on the horizon. He highlighted this as a historic chance for the region to elect its own government and break free from decades of neglect and dynastic politics by Valley-based parties. JAMMU/NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi wooed…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday accused the National Congress, Congress, and Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party of fostering family feuds, corruption, and terrorism for their political interests.Addressing a rally in Jammu, the UP CM said that the Congress-NC and PDP gave a slap “tamacha” instead of the tablet in…
JAMMU: Union home minister Amit Shah cautioned Thursday that electing candidates from the NC-Congress alliance and PDP in the ongoing J&K assembly elections would play into Pakistan’s hands. “If they get elected, Pakistan will celebrate,” he said, addressing a BJP campaign rally at Chenani in Udhampur district for the third and final phase of polling…
GANDERBAL: An ace swimmer is aiming to drown NC stalwart Omar Abdullah‘s electoral hopes in Ganderbal, his family bastion. The “legend” of Bashir Mir, PDP‘s candidate, is that he often plunges into the choppy waters of Sind river to rescue people without caring for his own life.The buzz is: If someone stakes his life for…
NEW DELHI: The first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections concluded on Wednesday with a voter turnout of 58.85 per cent across the Kashmir Valley and Jammu regions. Kishtwar recorded the highest turnout at 77 per cent, while Pulwama saw the lowest at just over 46 per cent. This marks the first assembly…
ANANTNAG: Often celebrated as the “Land of Poets”, the air in Dooru seems thick with the echoes of classical Persian and Kashmiri verses. Among the poets and storytellers, Saadat Hasan Manto had roots in this pretty town cradled by the towering Pir Panjal range in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.Dooru is currently drawing attention not for…
SRINAGAR: National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charges on Saturday that three families had ruined Jammu and Kashmir, saying BJP seemed to have no problem allying with these three when it needed them,“If BJP gets less numbers after elections, and if PDP gives it support, BJP will find no fault…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, National Conference and PDP and accused Jammu and Kashmir‘s ‘three political families’ of destroying the state through their dynastic politics.While addressing a rally in J&K’s Doda, PM Modi said, “This time’s assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir is between three…
SRINAGAR: Thousands gathered Sunday at an election rally organised by former members of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami in Budgam in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, where they pledged support for welfare measures by any future govt and called for the release of political prisoners.“Earlier, nobody talked to us. Now institutions have approached us, and people also talk…
SRINAGAR: J&K Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra pushed back Thursday against allegations by BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav that former militants are assisting National Conference (NC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in their campaign for the Sept 18-Oct 1 assembly elections.“Madhav seems unaware of his party inducting ex-militants into its fold,” Karra said after…
