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| Whips that won’t be cracked on defaulters in Jammu | | NC, Congress, PDP worried over infidelity of ‘alienated’ MLAs | | |
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
JAMMU, Apr 4: The anti-defection law in practice in Jammu & Kashmir makes all MLAs bound to vote in accordance with the directions of their respective party whips in the elections for Legislative Council.
However, the parties have no legal mechanism to ascertain whether a voter has gone by direction of the whip or contrary to it. In other words, any MLA belonging to any political party would be bound to vote
for the choice of his or her party but at the same time free to practice it according to his personal choice and commitment. This difference in conducting of elections for the Upper House of the
Parliament and Upper House of the State Legislature keeps Jammu & Kashmir open to horse trading on at least one unreserved seat in Jammu division in the Legislative Council elections on April 13th.
Chief Whips of National Conference (Mubarak Gul), Congress (Ghulam Ahmed Mir), PDP (Abdul Gaffar Sofi), BJP (Ashok Khajuria) and National Panthers Party (Balwant Singh Mankotia) would obviously direct members of their respective political parties to vote for the choice ... | |
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| My own flock is together for LC polls, says Soz | | Rules out dissensions within Cong or coalition | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, April 4: In run up to the polls for six Legislative Council seats, as the ‘political activity’ is getting hot, the J&K Pradesh Congress chief Prof Saif-u-Din Soz plays it cool maintaining that his ‘own flock is together’ and there are no dissensions, whatsoever neither within his party nor between the main alliance partners of ruling coalition.
“ I am concerned with my own flock……my flock is completely united ……I am not bothered with other parties…..”, Prof Soz said while dismissing the speculations and rumours about Congress not being a cohesive lot in so far as the voting for the elections is concerned.
Exuding confidence about the ‘success’ of the coalitio... | |
| | | | Youth's headless body recovered in Roop Nagar forests | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 04: The decapitated body of an unidentified youth was recovered by police from Roop Nagar forests near here this morning.The place, where the headless body was found lying by a Bakkerwal, is about 2 km ahead of the famous Aap Shambhu temple, according to
police sources.
After the Bakkerwal brought the matter to the notice of Janipura police station, cops, led by SHO, Inspector Ravinder Parihar, rushed to the spot.
A FSL team and senior police officers also reached the spot later. The head was just a couple of feet away from the torso. One arm was missing.
Sources said the missing arm had either been eaten by wild animals, or it was cut and thrown by assas... | |
| | | | Tornado claims lives of woman, her 2 children at Malhar | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 04: A kacha house collapsed due to high velocity and violent winds at Dhabi morha in Malhar area of Kathua in the wee hours of Monday morning as a resuilt of which a woman and her two
minor children were killed.
Police sources said Mohammad Hussain of Dhabi morha had taken loan under a centrally sponsored scheme to convert his kacha house into a pukka house.
However, before the one-room house could be made pucca, tornado struck the hamlet at about 3.30 am, the sources added.While Hussain jumped out of the room and saved his life, his wife
Khurshida Begum could not run to safety along with daughter Praveen (8) and six-month-old son Mohammad Aslam.Source... | |
| | | | Finally NC gives up its autonomy demand! | | Sageer Report, Rather Penal and Interlocutors | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, April 4: For the past three months nobody from the National Conference has made any mention of autonomy. The former Chief Minister and National Conference Patron, Dr Farooq Abdullah being the only exception. He made a mention of it while speaking at the India Today Conclave held last month in New Delhi. Has NC given up the demand?
Two years ago Justice Sageer submitted his report. He had made a passing reference of autonomy but NC made it a big issue. `We feel vindicated’, a statement issued by the NC said. However, nothing happened.
On October 13 last year, the state government referred Justice Sageer’s recommendations to a panel headed by the Finance Minister... | |
| | | | Corpse Commander hopes for peaceful 2011 | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Apr 4 : The General Officer Commanding of Army’s 15 Corps, Lt Gen Syed Atta Hasnain, Monday, hoped that 2011 will prove as year of peace for Kashmir.Talking to newsmen after inaugurating a five-day eye camp at Badami Bagh Cantt here, Gen Hasnain said, “Army and civil administration are working in close coordination to ensure peaceful 2011.”
The GOC said after next two weeks, their focus would be to ensure zero infiltration while different programmes have been formed to separate militants from public. “This is being done to neutralize residential militancy,” he said.
“Everybody has his own programme of perception management to win hearts and minds of people... | |
| | | | Omar intends to reward Raina a plot | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Apr 4 : Indian cricketer Sueresh Raina, whose family originally hails from Srinagar's Rainawari area, may get a residential plot in the Jammu and Kashmir capital if Chief Minister Omar Abdullah takes his Twitter message seriously.
Raina was part of Team India that won the Cricket World Cup in Mumbai on Saturday.A hint to this effect was given by Abdullah in his tweet, when it was brought to his notice that Raina, born in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad in 1986, was a Kashmiri Pandit much before they fled the Valley.
`Really,' Abdullah wondered over the tweet sent to him by another Kashmiri, Pandit Aditya Raj Kaul. And then he went on to add: 'I'd love to have him p... | |
| | | | Chidambaram complicating situation in Kashmir | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 4: The Home Minister said the Kashmir problem is a “political problem.” He is totally wrong. It is a pure communal problem – created by the sectarian, anti-secular, anti-democratic and pro-Pakistan Kashmiri Muslim leadership. Can the Home Minister say that the people of Jammu and Ladakh and displaced Kashmiri Hindus are part of the ongoing separatist movement in Kashmir? He cannot.
Can he say that the people of Jammu and Ladakh and displaced Kashmiri Hindus want a dispensation outside the Indian constitutional framework; that they want withdrawal of the Army and paramilitary forces and anti-terror laws from the state? He can’t. Can he say that the... | |
| | | | Civil society members or separatists and mercenaries | | Unholy intervention in Kashmir Movement | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 4: Who says the so-called Arya Samajist Swami Agnivesh, Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan, “author” Geeta Hariharan, Meena Menon, film maker Syed Mirza, journalist Zahir Ali Khan and the so-called JNU professors Kamal Mitra Chinoy and Anuradha Chinoy are members of civil society? They are not. They are essentially sympathizers and supporters of those who have been seeking to dismember India since decades. Most of them, particularly Agnivesh, Kamal Mitra Chinoy, to mention only a couple of them, are always seen in the company of Kashmiri separatists. As for others, they are well known supporters of Kashmiri separatists.
Not only this, they and simila... | |
| | | | Two teachers held for molesting girl students | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 04: Two government school teachers were arrested Monday in Mendhar and Poonch areas for allegedly molesting female students in their respective schools.
Police sources said cops led by Mendhar police station SHO, Inspector Aslam Choudhary arrested Gulzar Hussain -- a teacher posted in government higher secondary school, Mankote -- for
allegedly molesting a girl student of his school.
He was arrested following a written complaint against him by the victim's parents.
A case under sections 294, 506 and 509 of RPC was registered against him.
Another teacher, whom sources identified as Nasir Ahmed, son of Yaqoob of Khanetar, Poonch, was apprehended by police... | |
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