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| LC acid test for Cong few days away, Subhash retiring on April 1 | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Jammu, Mar 22: Jammu and Kashmir Congress is set to face acid test of choosing a member for being nominated to the Legislative Council.
Subhash Chander Gupta, who was nominated from the Congress quota, is retiring on April 1, 2014. Much before the retirement of Gupta on April 1, sources said that Congress leaders have already started making efforts for getting nominated. They added that since it is nomination and there would not be any voting, Congress has to take a decision of whom they want to field.
Member Parliament (MP) Choudhary Lal Singh who created a storm in New Delhi by seeking proper re-adjustment in return for vacating Doda-Udhampur Lok Sabha seat for ex-Ch... | |
| | | | DG prisons orders attachment of Rajni Sehgal to ADGP Home Guards | | Former Kotbhalwal superintendent harassed in the name of probes | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Jammu, Mar 22: Under the garb of the inquiry order issued by Commissioner Secretary Home, Suresh Kumar vide order No. 131-Home of 2014 dated 12-03-2014 wherein D.R. Doley Burman has been appointed as an inquiry officer to probe the role of former jail superintendent Kotbalwal Rajni Sehgal presently under suspension since last nearly 10 months in connection with the death of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay inside Kotbhalwal jail last year has now been directed by the Director General of Prisons, J&K Jammu to report to ADGP Home Guard, which is in violation of the transfer policy as DG Prison without the permission of Commissioner Secretary cannot issue such an order.
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| | | | Lal Singh supporters hold protest against Azad | | 30 Sarpanches desert Congress in Kathua, join BJP | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Jammu, Mar 22: Merely four days ahead of filling his nomination papers for Udhampur-Kathua-Doda parliamentary seat, Union Health Minister and Congress party candidate Ghulam Nabi Azad today faced first rebellion in Kathua where supporters of sitting Congress Member Parliament Chowdhary Lal Singh's supporters held a massive protest demonstration at Kalibari Chowk raising anti Azad and pro Lal Singh slogans.
As per details available with Early Times, the supporters of Lal Singh assembled at Kalibari Chowk and showed their anger towards party high command over denying ticket to sitting Congress MP Lal Singh and also raised anti Azad and anti party slogans demanded a rethin... | |
| | | | Omar creating PDP-Cong divide on false, presumed notions | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 22: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is consciously and desperately trying to create wedge between People’s Democratic Party and Congress on assumed notions. Omar fears that even a slight chance of any possibility of their coming together could send him packing from the State politics.
Omar, assuming that PDP patron had criticized the Congress twetted : "the fact that Mufti Sayeed is praising the NDA and criticising the Cong means he has accepted that his efforts to play footsie with Cong failed."
The fact is Mufti in his press conference had not openly critcised Cong but had infact said that Omar Abdullah could not carry forward the peace initiatives tak... | |
| | | | Why is NC targetting PDP, BJP? | | Fear of free and fair elections | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 22: The issueless and failed National Conference (NC) leadership has unleashed a no-holds-barred propaganda against the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress have been trying their best to convert the coming elections into a war between fake secularism for which they stand and communalism (read people's democracy, national integration, fight against corruption, development and economic prosperity). The NC leadership has been attacking the PDP all the more saying that the main opposition PDP has "covert ties" with the BJP. To make its point, it has been saying that PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Beig's adulatory and ... | |
| | | | BJP, Cong, PDP all eyeing Brahmin vote bank on Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha seat | | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Mar 22: Amid a keen contest between Congress, Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the 'battle royale' for the Jammu-Poonch parliamentary constituency, going for poll on April 10, is presenting a unique picture to the voters as all the three major political parties are relying on Brahmin candidates to woo the voters.
The Jammu-Poonch parliamentary seat, which has the distinction of being the largest among the six Lok Sabha constituencies in J&K with as many as 17,63,579 voters, is currently being represented by senior Congress leader Madan Lal Sharma.
Madan Lal Sharma, who is a Brahmin, emerged victorious in 2009 and 2004 by inflicting... | |
| | | | 2014 elections and discontent in Jammu -- I | | Redressing grievances | | |
Rustam
Jammu, Mar 22: The strategic Jammu province is sitting on a volcano of discontent. The people of the region cutting across party lines are chaffing. They are seething with anger, which can explode anytime. And if it happens, the results would be disastrous. They constitute almost half of the State's population and inhabit land area two times that of Kashmir. They inhabit over 26,000 sq km of the State's land area, bulk of which is highly treacherous, difficult and inaccessible, as against less than 16,000 sq km area the people of Kashmir occupy.
The anger of the people of Jammu province is not only directed towards the discriminatory, arrogant, selfish and insensitive Kashmiri le... | |
| | | | Congress response to Kashmiri leadership's divisive demands | | Queering the Indian pitch in the Valley | | | Neha
Jammu, Mar 22: It is an established fact that political power has been in the hands of Kashmiri leadership since 1947 and Article 370 has further empowered it to exercise unbridled and absolute legislative and executive powers. It is also a fact that Jammu and Kashmir is the only state in the country that enjoys residuary powers. It is also too well-known that Kashmir has been getting preferential treatment from New Delhi and dominates all or nearly the institutions in the state. And still the nation is facing many challenges in the Kashmir valley. It is not only the separatists and fanatics like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and Shabir Ahmad Shah who have be... | |
| | | | Will Bhaderwah centric approach help Azad to win LS election? | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Jammu, Mar 22 : Amid much expectation of winning Doda-Kathua-Udhampur parliamentary seat for coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress party dropped two time sitting MP Lal Singh and replaced him with Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad as party candidate who according to the party is popular figure and has served the people as Chief Minister for 31 months from November 2005 to July 2008, before he decided to resign following withdrawal of support by Peoples Democratic Party in wake of aftermath of Amar Nath land transfer row can win the seat for party. If going through electoral details of Doda-Kathua-Udhampur parliamentary constituency, it has total 141279... | |
| | | | Toeing NC line, Congress assigns segment wise task to ministers | | Main thrust of assigned job: Remain in touch with Co-ordination committee | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 22 : Leadership of state unit of Congress is busy in setting up a spree of committees- all for gearing up the campaign on two seats of Jammu, today one more having been added to the already existing poll panels of the party. Even as PCC chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz for the last two weeks has been trying to delegate responsibilty to almost all senior leaders of the party, he has assigned this task afresh to the ministers of the party today . While distributing various key constituencies as per their areas of political influence, PCC chief has asked them to remain in touch necessarily with coordination committee of both the alliance partners National Conference ... | |
| | | | Multi-pronged contest expected in Baramulla-Kupwara constituency | | Engineer Rashid joins fray | | | Javaid Naikoo
Srinagar, Mar 22 : With People's Democratic Party (PDP), National conference (NC), Peoples conference (PC) and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), newly formed Awami Itihad Party (AIP) led by Engineer Rashid today announcing its candidates to contest Lok Sabha polls from Kashmir, North Kashmir is likely to witness an interesting and multi-pronged contest.
Entering the fray, Awami Itihad Party (AIP) chief, Engineer Rashid today announced its candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls for the three Kashmir seats of Central, North and South Kashmir and appealed people to vote for him and his candidates.
Talking to Early Times, Rashid said he will contest from Baramulla-Kup... | |
| | | | BJP sees Modi wave;Omar believes in only cold, heat wave in J&K | | (Behind the veil) | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 22 : It is bullying time in Jammu and Kashmir.It is time for releasing party poll manifestos.It is time to make tall promises never to be fulfilled.It is time to stretch and strive.It is time to wait for freebies from candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election.
Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,is confident because he is sure that the ruling NC-Congress coalition will bag all the six seats,three by the NC and the remaining three by the Congress leaving the PDP,the BJP and the AAP parties to fret and fume. It is part of the bullying tactics.
The BJP sees Modi wave blowing right from Kathua to Poonch,from Poonch to Udhampur,from Udhampur to Banihal.The ... | |
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