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| PDP's wine in NC bottle! | | Omar promises one job to each household | | | HAMAAD SALIF
POONCH, Nov 11: National Conference president Omar Abdullah today kicked off his election campaign with a promise which Peoples Democratic Party made six years back and later not only forgot.
Besides the idealistic roadmap to resolution of Kashmir issue and the healing touch policy, the Peoples Democratic Party in its 2002 manifesto had promised one job each to every family in the state. However, facing realties after formation of government the party had retracted saying that its intention was to give priority to those families which don’t have anyone in government jobs.
Launching election campaign from this district today Omar said his party has a dream of transforming the destiny of the state and its people and promised employment to one person of each household, if voted to power.
Addressing public meetings in Mandi and Jhulas, Omar said National Conference has come out with its agenda for governance which is a roadmap for the economic resurgence of the state and will usher an era of unprecedented development in the state and open new avenues of employment.
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| Alva pays for questioning nepotism | | | | ET DESK
JAMMU, Nov 11: Finally the Congress General Secretary Maragret Alva has paid a price for questioning distribution of ticket to relatives and family members of the party leaders in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir.
Alva on Tuesday resigned as general secretary of the party, the morning after she met Sonia Gandhi to explain her stance on the controversy following her allegation that party tickets were sold during the Karnataka polls.
The party's Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) had threatened action against the 66-year-old leader.
According to party insiders, Alva, who was called back from poll-bound Mizoram, a state she is in charge of along with ... | |
| | | | Kar hits Congress where it hurts | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 11: Looking at Congress party’s profile in Jammu and Kashmir, names of three veterans naturally come to mind –Saif-ud-Din Soz, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ghulam Rasool Kar.
In organizational context, Kar’s name comes first and then Azad’s and Soz’s. While Soz and Azad are yet to mark their presence at the election scene, Kar has fired the embarrassing salvo at Congress.
The all time veteran, the former president of the Pradesh Congress Committee, Ghulam Rasool Kar has revolted against the party and seeking election as an independent candidate from Sopore constituency in Barmulla district.
Kar is among those Congress leaders who put a front in Kashmir during al... | |
| | | | No politicking, no complacency: Vohra to officials | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 11: A day after Government’s arrival in Jammu, the Governor NN Vohra today took a whirlwind tour of the poll bound twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch with clear and express instructions to his men –no violation of poll conduct and no complacency in security apparatus.
Vohra exhorted the State Administration to strictly adhere to the model Code of Conduct, leaving no scope for deviation from the laid down norms.
Reviewing the overall security arrangements obtaining in the border districts of Poonch and Rajouri this morning, the Governor said that no complaint in this regard will be acceptable, as the Administration is required to maintain total impa... | |
| | | | 31 emergency polling stations in Poonch | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SAWJIAN, (LoC), Nov 11: With border dwellers living in constant fear in the wake of repeated cross-border firings from the Pakistani side in Poonch district, authorities have formulated a contingency plan by setting up 31 emergency polling stations in safer areas.
"There is an increase in cross-border firing and we do not want to take any risk. Therefore, we have formulated a contingency plan under which we have prepared 31 polling stations which fall out of the range of Pakistan firing along the LoC in Poonch district. They will be made operational in case of any eventually," District Election Officer Poonch Mohammad Afzal Bhat said.
In view of the Indo-Pak border t... | |
| | | | Situation under control: Army chief | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Nov 11: The Army on Tuesday asserted that the situation in poll-bound Jammu and Kashmir was under check and it will provide a peaceful environment for holding elections in the state.
"We hope (that) we will provide peaceful environment for elections (in Jammu and Kashmir) that are taking place," Army chief General Deepak Kapoor, who arrived on a two-day visit to the state, said.
Reacting to a question on the security situation in the state General Kapoor said "the situation in Jammu and kashmir is well under check".
The army chief is in the Valley to dedicate various projects to the people of the state completed under Operation Sadbhavana.
He dedicated ... | |
| | | | On ET report, Govt says we are working at it | | Cross-LoC Trade | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 11: Responding to a story appearing in EARLY TIMES on failing cross-Line of Control trade and rather much failing enthusiasm among the traders, the state government has sought to assure that the points raised therein are under active consideration and are being worked out at different levels.
In its Monday issue, the Early Times had reported that due to complete lack of required logistics, communication facilities and banking options, the cross-LoC trade is coming close to a cropper as traders have declared to stop sending consignments across Line of Control till facilities were put in place. Choosing to ignore the fact that traders have refused to send cons... | |
| | | | Of Lone sister, brothers and call of democracy | | | | ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
SRINAGAR, Nov 11: Amidst anti-poll campaign and call of social boycott of those contesting assembly elections, the separatist political spectrum in Kashmir finally has a genuine contest within which underlines that elections for forming a government and the vexed ‘Kashmir issue’ are two different processes altogether.
Separatist ‘stalwart’ Sajjad Lone and his brother Bilal Lone of the Peoples Conference (founded by their father Abdul Ghani Lone) are out on a well drawn up anti-poll campaign in Kashmir. They don’t have the well explained and cogent reasons for opposing polls but their bottomline is that elections have to be opposed because they don’t lead towards resoluti... | |
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