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| Where is Devender Singh Rana? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 25: Chief Minister's former advisor and National Conference provincial president for Jammu, Devender Singh Rana has most probably gone into hiding after NC worst ever performance in the recently concluded Parliamentary elections.
Devender was Omar's darling for quite some time and is held responsible for misleading the Chief Minister on various occasions.
Senior in the party hold him responsible for most of the wrong decisions taken by Omar which include sidelining of some influential seniors. Insiders said that Rana exercised so much influence on Omar that he ignored calls of seniors like Ali Mohammad Sagar and his Finance Minister. NC Rajya Sabha member, Rattanpuri took a dig at Rana in 2011 on the birth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. The broadcaster turned said NC was run by political novices who had suffocated the veterans in the party.
"Today's National Conference is not strong because the 'rats' have taken over after actual heirs of the party have gone into hibernation", he said. Hitting hard at Rana, he said, "No Rana, No Maharan... | |
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| Can senior Abdullah play the savior? | | `NC has many leaders but no leadership' | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 25: It is just very recently when Farooq Abdullah, president National Conference ruled himself out for his role in the future politics citing his old age as the main reason. Not only this, he went on saying that Omar, his son is a young and dynamic leader, capable of running the party.
But elder Abdullah's experiments failed on the ground as it could not prove its representative character given its poorest of the performances in the 2014 Parliamentary elections as it was given a white wash in Kashmir valley by People’s Democratic Party.
No politician should be ruled by the imagination. Sensible politics makes a person to touch the sky and the ill one cr... | |
| | | | 'Ab ki baar Mufti sarkar' echoes in Kashmir | | Mufti gains from Modi | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 25: The BJP slogan which gripped the collective imagination of the country - Ab ki baar Modi sarkar - has found an interesting echo in the valley. Heard in colleges, offices, tea-shops, auto-stands and in shikara parkings along the Dal Lake is a curious refrain said half-jokingly: Ab ki baar Mufti sarkar.
The incidental similarity of PDP patron Mufti Sayeed's name to that of Modi has set off discourse, heard in many quarters now in Srinagar.
Reports indicate that the same refrain is being echoed in remote parts of north and south Kashmir. The more it is being said, the more it is being repeated among people in good humour.
Political analysts in the s... | |
| | | | Chenab valley, Rajouri-Poonch can act as NC's lifelines | | Omar must end discrimination with sub-regions | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 25: As the National Conference working President, Omar Abdullah has started the process of introspection after the poll debacle but limiting it to Kashmir valley only may prove fatal for him in areas of Jammu region where NC has got better vote share in 2008 Assembly elections.
Few areas in Chenab valley, Rajouri and Poonch districts have remained NC's stronghold since long and it was only after 2002 elections that few constituencies, NC started to lose.
Now, when Omar Abdullah is saying that he needs to learn as how NC faced the worst ever poll debacle ahead of the Assembly elections, addressing issues of people of these sub-regions of the state are must.... | |
| | | | NABARD's projects not executed timely, other targets not achieved | | | | Bivek Mathur
Jammu, May 24: Studying the proposed physical targets and achievements made thereupon by Public Works Department (Road &Building) Department for the year 2011-12 for the Udhampur district has shown untimely execution of projects under NABARD, poor execution of blacktopping-Metalling projects and a dismal picture for widening/improving of different roads.
The figures available with Early Times reads that under District plan, the graph of achievements is comparatively better than the projects taken under central sponsored schemes like National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). For the year 2011-12, under NABARD RIDF-XII &XIII head, blacktopping (BT) of 20.5... | |
| | | | Security forces kill two LeT militants in Kulgam | | | | Early Times Report
KULGAM, May 25: Two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants affiliated with Ayatollah group (Sub-Group of LeT) were killed during a gunfight with Security forces during a gunfight in Nowpora village of Kulgam district today. Both the militants were hiding in the house of Panchayat representative which got damaged during the gunfight.
According to police sources Army's 1RR, CRPF and SOG Kulgam launched a cordon-and-search operation in Nowapora Frisal area of Kulgam fallowing specific information about the presence of two local militants hiding inside the house of Sarpanch identified as Feroz Ahmad Sheikh.
At around 12 pm both the local militants fired upon the army's searchin... | |
| | | | Kalarosa tense after activist succumbs in SKIMS | | Restrictions imposed to uphold order | | | Early Times Report
KUPWARA, May 25: Clashes erupted between two groups of mainstream political parties, after LS poll results were declared for Baramulla-Kupwara Parliamentary constituency on May 16. Restrictions are in place to thwart any untoward incident in Kalarosa area of North Kashmir's Kupwara district today.
According to sources, a man, who was injured in a group clash after LS poll results on May 16, died in Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS) late Saturday evening after battling for life for 9 days.
"Mohammad Shafi Ganie resident of Kalarosa Kupwara was injured in a group clash was admitted in skims in a critical condition on May 16 and was in a coma, Ganai ... | |
| | | | "Kashmiris are mahachor" statement damaged NC's poll prospects | | | | Rustam
JAMMU, May 25: National Conference (NC) working president and JAMMU & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday gave a very long interview to a correspondent of an English language daily. During the interview, he took many questions and also catalogued the reasons behind the humiliating defeat of the NC candidates, including his own father and former J&K Chief Minister and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah, in the just- held Lok Sabha elections. Besides Farooq Abdullah, the other two NC candidates who suffered massive defeat at the hands of the PDP candidates - Mehbooba Mufti, Muzzaffar Hussain Beig and Tariq Hamid Karra - were Mehboob Beg and
Sharif-ud-Din Shariq. Tariq Hamid... | |
| | | | Nawaz Sharif's Delhi visit and the Kashmiri’s hope | | | | Neha
JAMMU, May 25: Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif on May 24 finally accepted the New Delhi's invite for the May 26 swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, BJP leader. He took three long days to take decision. The decision was taken by Kashmiri leaders, both the separatist and so-called mainstream, including self-styled chairman of the APHC M Mirwaiz Umar farooq and NC leader and state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, to mean the opening of a new chapter in the India-Pakistan relations and a great step forward in the direction of the resolution of the so-called Kashmir issue.
They spoke in one voice, thus making it impossible to distinguish as to who belo... | |
| | | | ‘Congress should contest Assembly elections alone’ | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 25: After a dismal show in the Parliamentary elections and with the two coalition partners choosing to wash dirty linen in public, senior leaders suggest ending the coalition on a good note and contesting the forthcoming Assembly elections alone.
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Congress Committee (AICC) member and former Minister, Abdul Gani Vakil today said the party must highlight the achievements of the former Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad during Assembly elections and refrain from forging alliances with other parties.
Vakil blamed the coalition partner National Conference for the poll debacle saying the Chief Minister and other important Ministries were held by th... | |
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