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| J&K GOES TO POLLS | | EC announces seven-phased elections from Nov 17 to Dec 24, counting on Dec 28 | | | Guesswork season end, politics gets impetus
• Ladakh, Poonch, Bandipore in first phase; Jammu, Srinagar in last phase
• Model Code of Conduct comes into force
• No election related official to serve in home district
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 19: Ending a season of guesswork and injecting an impetus in otherwise dull politics, the Election Commission of India has finally given nod to the elections for Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly.
Chief Election Commissioner of India N Gopalaswamy announced a staggering a seven-phased election schedule to begin with November 17 and end by December 24. Counting of votes will take place on December 31 and entire election process is set to complete by December 31.
Jammu based political parties have welcomed with enthusiasm the election schedule while Kashmir based parties have reacted with caution particularly expressing concern on voter turn out.
The Model Code of Conduct, which comes into effect immediately will apply to the whole state and will be applicable to all candidates, political parties as well as the Stat... | |
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| Top notch transfers ahead of polls | | Ganai replaces Goswami as Principal Secretary Home | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 19: Barely hours ahead of the announcement of impending elections to Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly, the Governor’s administration ordered transfers at top and middle level of bureaucracy shifting key officers.
Anil Goswami, IAS, Principal Secretary to Government, Home Department has been transferred and posted as Financial Commissioner (Revenue) vice Mr. Khurshid Ahmad Ganai.
Arun Kumar, IAS, presently attached to the General Administration Department has been posed as Principal Secretary to Government, Information Technology Department relieving Mr. Ashok Kumar Parmar, Commissioner/Secretary to Government, Science and Technology Department of the ... | |
| | | | Nehru patronized Sheikh to keep uncertainty linger | | Congress & Kashmir -III | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 19: Ironically, Sheikh Abdullah was to claim at one stage that he was willing to ratify the state accession to India but he was prevented from doing so by Nehru. After his release from internment for the second time, he said on April 15 1964. "I sought to ratify the, accession and other commitment of mine through the Constituent Assembly. It was the Government of India which, contested in the, Security Council as well as in Parliament the Assembly's right to do so." He disclosed the same information to or Syama Prasad Mooker Jee in his correspondence with the latter in 1953. Nehru Confirmed this himself at Press conference on June 21, 1952: “When the Constit... | |
| | | | Eager to test fate, parties welcome polls | | | | SANDEEP BHAT
JAMMU, Oct 19: Both regional and national political parties in the state have welcomed the decision of election commission of India (ECI) for conducting the assembly elections in the state on time and further describe it a right decision in a democratic set up. Leaders of these parties in there separate messages said these elections will give chance to the people of state to choose the next government in the state.
The senior national leader of BJP, Arun Jaitley and party incharge for J&K state, said it a welcome step, beside describe it a festival season. He said BJP was always favouring elections on right time so that people can use right of franchise. There is absolute nor... | |
| | | | Jammu Bar to have new constitution: Sethi | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 19: Elected second time with a thumping majority in a keenly contested election, the new president of the Bar Association of Jammu has listed the redrawing of association’s constitution and pushing for consideration of competent woman lawyers for the post of Judges as topmost priorities.
Sunil Sethi, who was elected second time to the post of the president of Bar Association of Jammu results of which were announced last midnight, told EARLY TIMES that in his present term he will pick up the threads from where he had left in 2004 and make the Bar Association of Jammu an institution to reckon with. Son of country’s leading legal luminaries of times late Justic... | |
| | | | Separatists to campaign for boycott | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Oct 19: The Hurriyat Conference and other separatist outfits on Sunday said they will boycott the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir which they termed as a "futile exercise".
"Hurriyat has nothing to do with this meaningless exercise and would ask the people to stay away from it as well," Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the separatist amalgam's moderate faction, said after the Election Commission announced the seven-phased poll schedule for the border state.
The Hurriyat leader said rather than focusing on the real issue-- the settlement of Kashmir, the government was trying to give an impression that Kashmir was an "administrative" problem which could... | |
| | | | Pak team to inspect Baglihar today | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 19: A seven-member Pakistani delegation of the Indus Water Treaty Commission arrived in Jammu today to inspect the water storage in the Baglihar hydel project, which was commissioned Oct 10.The Pakistani team, led by secretary works Syed Jamait Ali Shah, will inspect the project Monday “to see if the water was being stored as permitted under the provisions of the IWT or in violation of it”.
The first phase of the 450 MW Baglihar Hydro Electric project, built on the Chenab river in Ramban district, was commissioned by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Shah told reporters that the water inflow at Mirala head in Pakistan has reduced and this is “very bad for our... | |
| | | | SAC calls for regional cohesion | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Oct 19: The Jammu and Kashmir advisory Council headed by Governor N N Vohra has called for enhancement of people-to-people contact between diffe
rent regions of the state in the aftermath of Amarnath land row.
The Council, comprising politicians, academicians and social workers made the appeal after a five-hour meeting chaired by Vohra here last evening, official sources said.
With the state set to initiate cross-border trade with Pak-Occupied-Kashmir through Uri-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawalakote routes on October 21, the members felt the need for immediately restoring economic linkages between trade and industry within the state, the sources said.
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