x

Like our Facebook Page

   
Early Times Newspaper Jammu, Leading Newspaper Jammu
 
Breaking News :   Justice For Terror Victim Families | Kathua Administration welcomes first Batch of Amarnath Yatris at Lakhanpur | Yatra of resilience: LG to flag off first batch today after Pahalgam carnage, Op Sindoor | LG visits Yatri Niwas at Bhagwati Nagar, reviews arrangements | LG reviews final preparations | LG chairs high-level meeting, discusses issues of terror victim families | LG flags off fleet of ambulances in Ramban, Anantnag districts | 5 real brothers from Budgam among fraudulently selected candidates | Hope beneath the surface: Govt plans underground hospital in Poonch | ACB catches DDC member red handed | Crime Branch books J&K Bank officers, others for frauds | Back Issues  
 
news details
First time in history Accession Day to be celebrated officially today
10/25/2020 11:47:01 PM

Early Times Report

Jammu, Oct 25: History is going to be created on Monday as first time after establishing of democratic set-up in erstwhile state of J&K, the government is going to celebrate Accession Day as October 26 has been declared as ‘public-day’
October 26 will be observed as Accessions Day in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Earlier Accession Day was celebrated by different social and political organizations, but successive democratic governments, since 1947, have never given importance to this historic day. For the first time in Jammu and Kashmir, people will have a public holiday on October 26, the day last Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir State signed the instrument of accession with the then Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten, acceding his state with Dominion of India in 1947. Although nationalist people of J&K were raising the demand of declaring October 26 as a public holiday since long, their demand was never fulfilled.
Even during the three-year tenure of PDP-BJP regime this demand was repeatedly raised by the people but ‘power hungry’ BJP ministers failed to assert on this issue. It was only in the year 2019 when the government of J&K issued an official calendar of holidays in which October 26 was listed as public holiday.
J&K administration had dropped ‘Martyrs’ Day’ and the birth anniversary of National Conference founder and former Chief Minister Sheikh Abdullah from its list of gazetted public holidays. Earlier, Martyrs’ Day and Abdullah ‘s birth anniversary used to be observed as public holidays on July 13 and December 5 respectively before the state of Jammu and Kashmir was divided into two union territories.
  Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network  
  Comment on this Story  
 
 
 
Early Times Android App
STOCK UPDATE
  
BSE Sensex
NSE Nifty
 
CRICKET UPDATE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
Home About Us Top Stories Local News National News Sports News Opinion Editorial ET Cetra Advertise with Us ET E-paper
 
 
J&K RELATED WEBSITES
J&K Govt. Official website
Jammu Kashmir Tourism
JKTDC
Mata Vaishnodevi Shrine Board
Shri Amarnath Ji Shrine Board
Shri Shiv Khori Shrine Board
UTILITY
Train Enquiry
IRCTC
Matavaishnodevi
BSNL
Jammu Kashmir Bank
State Bank of India
PUBLIC INTEREST
Passport Department
Income Tax Department
JK CAMPA
JK GAD
IT Education
Web Site Design Services
EDUCATION
Jammu University
Jammu University Results
JKBOSE
Kashmir University
IGNOU Jammu Center
SMVDU