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| After expulsion, now some voluntary exits too | | Sadiq Ali, several others quit PDP, join NC | | | Ear;u Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 10
ET Exclusive
Perhaps Ghulam Hassan Mir's expulsion from the Peoples Democratic Party was long overdue but the story does not end here. The 'in-house' rebel has been compulsorily shown the door, but there are many who are opting voluntary exit from the party. However, the party is yet not over!
Former legislator and respected Shia leader Sadiq Ali has opted to himself open the party door and make a way out. "I am suffocated", Sadiq Ali the former MLA from Zadibal said as he rejoined the National Conference today in presence of party patron Dr Farooq Abdullah.
Sadiq had a battle of ideas and ideologies with another big and mighty Shia counterpart Mou... | |
| | | | SRTC strike called off | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 10
Following assurance by the Minister for Transport Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen that the pending salary and COLA of the State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) employees would be released soon, the SRTC employees Joint Action Committee Union has called off the strike.
The announcement was made by the employees Joint Action Committee leaders soon after the successful dialogue between them and the Minister for Transport Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen at a meeting held here representatives of SRTC employees, State Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) and SRTC management chaired by Transport Minister Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen, the issues were discussed threadbare.
MLA K... | |
| | | | Farooq raps Delhi | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 10
Former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah is these days in full anti-Delhi mood. Till 2002, Dr Abdullah was perhaps the strongest votary of the central government despite the fact the autonomy proposal of the National Conference was dismissed in three minutes.
Holding Delhi squarely responsible for all ills Jammu and Kashmir has gone and is going through, Dr Abdullah during his last visit to the town had observed that the central government does not want peace in the state. Today he has said that the Center was merely buying time for the elections and was in no mood to make any breakthrough.
“the way New Delhi is delaying resolution of Kashmir issu... | |
| | | | Campus sizzles as JUTA goes to polls today | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 10
ET Special
Otherwise cooling amidst thick canopy of trees and shrubs, the Jammu University campus is sizzling with the politics as the most powerful body of varsity teachers association goes to polls tomorrow.
The Jammu University Teachers’ Association (JUTA) election is essentially a triangular and keen contest this time. The election is being contested on the manifesto of merits and demerits, advantages and disadvantages, elder and young, experience and energy and the list goes on.
Arvind Jasrotia of the Law School; RD Sharma, Rector Kathua Campus and NK Tripathi of the department of Zoology are locked in a contest of elders versus young. While t... | |
| | | | Mir gets support from ANC, Shoaib Lone for third front | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 10
Number of political groups and leaders have had session with the ousted PDP leader and MLA,Ghulam Hassan Mir, who was expelled from the primary membership of the party on charge of anti-party activities yesterday. The Awami National Conference, led by G.M.Shah, a former Chief Minister, Shoaib Lone, an independent MLA, and several former ministers and legislators, including Sonnaullah Dar, a former Industries Minister, are said to have extended their support to Ghulam Hassan Mir,member of the State Assembly,who was expelled from the basic membership of the PDP yesterday,in his bid for the formation of a third front in Jammu and Kashmir.
Even before his ... | |
| | | | Congress flip flop over nuclear deal conveys confusing messages | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Mar 10
News Analysis
Flip flop by the Congress led UPA government and the Congress party itself over nuclear deal, almost daily changing its stance and priority has presented the party in a bad shape. The External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukerjee, who earlier spoke of government's determination to operationalise the deal, disregarding the consequences of the same, took 180 degree u turn, when threatened by the leftists of withdrawal of their support to the government, in case the deal is operationalised and stated that the same cannot be done at the cost of fall of the government. The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, who even went to the extent o... | |
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