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| ‘It is for voter to vote or not’ | | EC says strict instructions for upholding electors’ rights , SDM of Mahore fired, Zanskar transferred, more action soon | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 13: Once again issuing a strict warning to the anti-election campaigners, the Election Commission of India today issued instructions to the District Election Officers for ensuring that the voters are neither stopped nor forced to cast their votes.
Receiving a bagful of complaints on second and last day of its assessment tour to the state, the Election Commission fired the Sub Divisional Magistrate Mahore in Reasi district and ordered immediate transfer of SDM Zanskar in Kargil. The Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami said that other complaints are being looked into for appropriate action.
Meanwhile, in encouraging news for more than lakh employees of the state government, the Chief Election Commissioner said that it has received a proposal from the state government on permission for implementation of Sixth Pay Commission which is being examined.
Before winding up their two day visit to the state, the Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami told a press conference here this evening that voting is the discretion of the electors alone, and a... | |
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| Maharashtra ATS to investigate Malegoan’s Jammu connections | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 13: Following questioning of Malegaon blast suspect Dayanand Pandey’s Chartered Accountant in Jammu, a team of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) is all set to arrive in the Winter Capital to get more clues about the network.
The Jammu Police had on Wednesday picked up Pandey’s Chartered Accountant Virender Kapoor and his son for questioning but they were later let off. Kapoor had said that his association with Pandey was purely professional and limited to managing finances only. However, the website of Pandey, Sharda Sarvagyapeeth shows Kapoor as its founder member.
In this backdrop, the ATS squad of Maharashtra is coming to Jammu to investigate all r... | |
| | | | Pandey visited Kashmir in 2003 | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Nov 13 : The mystery surrounding the Kashmir connection of self-proclaimed Shankaracharya Dayanand Pandey, arrested in connection with the Malegaon blasts, appears to be getting deeper by the day.
Pandey visited in 2003 the Zeethyar temple, which lies adjacent to the Raj Bhawan in the summer capital Srinagar, according to an official of the temple trust.
"In 2003, Swami Amritanand Pandey visited the Zeethyar temple," Maharaj Krishen Pandita, general secretary of the Zeesta Devi Temple Trust, told an agency.
"He looked like a state guest and was accompanied by a lot of security men. He claimed he was visiting various Hindu shrines in the valley besides goin... | |
| | | | His name arrives on scene, Baig unseen | | PDP clears 7 more faces | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 13: Though former Deputy Chief Minister and senior Peoples Democratic Party leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig is yet to be seen on the scene, the party has cleared his candidature for Barmulla constituency where Baig had won in 2002.
The former Deputy Chief Minister was appointed by the party as chairman of mandate committee but he has not been seen around ever since the elections were announced on October 19. While rumours in political circles suggested that Baig had fallen with Muftis but party clarified this saying that the former Deputy Chief Minister is not keeping good health and is on rest.
Beig will seek re-election from Baramulla Assembly segment as th... | |
| | | | Omar’s caravan stoned in Ganderbal | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 13: National Conference President Omar Abdullah has been going around Ganderbal constituency telling people that he is back after learning lessons of 2002 elections but people are not quite receptive to his innocent words.
Election campaigning between rival National Conference and Congress at the prestigious Ganderbal Assembly turned ugly when some supporters of Congress pelted stones at the motorcade of Omar Abdullah, triggering clashes.
Police had to resort to cane-charging and later burst teargas shells to disperse supporters of the two rival parties at Barsu village in Ganderbal, 30 km from here.
The National Conference President Omar Abdullah had cross... | |
| | | | Governor stresses for gearing up road projects | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 13: Stressing the critical importance of satisfactory road connectivity in a hilly State like Jammu and Kashmir, Governor, NN Vohra, today called for an effective and cohesive mechanism for the construction, up-gradation and maintenance of the existing and new roads.
The Governor was reviewing the to-date status of the various roads taken up in Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh Divisions by the Border Roads Organization through the BEACON, SAMPARAK and the HIMANK Projects at a high level meeting held here this morning.
Vohra observed that roads in the border belts of the State, which depended heavily on surface transport due to the lack of railways, were strategical... | |
| | | | Multi-cornered contest may mar fortune of many | | | | NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
JAMMU, Nov 13: Some call it negative politics. Others treat it nothing but the sadistic approach when candidate after candidate file nomination papers for contesting the election. This is what is happening in Jammu and Kashmir where those who may forfeit their security deposit too are in the race. Their interest, as they know it,is not to win the election. Their purpose is to get grouped with those who contested the election. It is "I also ran the race" for them.The result is that in majority of 87 Assembly constituencies there are four to 10 candidates in the field. In some constituencies where all the poltical parties have fielded their candidates the number of contestan... | |
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