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| Fotedar's favourite axis: Mufti-Soz-Geelani | | 'Omar knows nothing of accession; Chidambaram knows nothing of J&K; Karan Singh is a Maharaja Bahadur' | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, June 15: Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's confidante and key advisor on Jammu & Kashmir matters, Makhan Lal Fotedar, has hogged headlines in Srinagar on account of his outlandish likes and dislikes in politics. After remaining in oblivion for years, Fotedar has stirred a hornet's nest in the principal ruling party, National Conference, over its describing the accession as "conditional" but has, at the same time, called PDP patriarch, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, as the "most competent Chief Minister" and the Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani as his "old friend".
Fotedar has been camping in Srinagar after participating in Mata Khirbhawani festival at Tulmulla last week. Hitting hard on NC over its 'accession-not-merger', Fotedar has disputed Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's knowledge and locus standi with his own argument: 'Omar was not born when accession happened'. NC's spokesman, in a quick reaction, maligned Fotedar as 'an old snake in the (Congress-NC) sleeve'. "Why don't know move out, if there are snakes in the Congress party?", Fotedar asked b... | |
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| Non-party Panchayat elections? | | Rotational CM issue returns to haunt NC, Cong begins pulling rug | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, June 15: After patting Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's back on peaceful and successful culmination of Panchayat elections across the state, Congress has begun pulling the rug from beneath.
Demand for rotational Chief Minister has started gaining ground. Ask for the reasons and you would come to know about contention of top congress leadership in Jammu and Kashmir that party has done exceedingly well in Panchayat elections and is far-ahead of National Conference (NC). More importantly, the belief in congress camp that NC has lost mandate within 30 months of the formation of coalition government and continuation with the same political set-up might wean away even th... | |
| | | | What is NC doing in the company of snakes, asks Fotedar | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR: Hitting back at ruling National Conference for calling him 'aasteen ka saanp', senior Congress leader and close confidante of Gandhi family Makhan Lal Fotedar today sought to know from NC, what it was doing in the company of snakes.
Talking to a local news agency, an angry Fotedar said "If Congress leaders are snakes, what is NC doing in the company of snakes." He accused NC of changing colors like chameleon. "In 1975 when Sheri-i-Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah took over as Chief Minister, he accepted constitution of India whereby it's clearly mentioned that Kashmir is integral part of India. When Sheikh accepted accession to India, it was full and final, h... | |
| | | | Kamat visits BSF hqrs at Paloura, interacts with jawans | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 15: Union minister of state for Home, communications and information technology, Gurudas Kamat today visited BSF headquarters at Paloura and interacted with jawans and officers.
Earlier, he paid his obeisance at the holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishnodevi in Trikuta Hills of Katra and also visited the famous Raghunathji temple here.
During his brief stay at the BSF Paloura campus, he interacted with jawans and senior officers on various issues related to border management and recent developments on the International Border.
He also reviewed security arrangements made by BSF in view of latest developments on the western borders.
Kamat praised BSF for its ef... | |
| | | | Half of June is over and Kashmir is calm | | Hot weather cool people' | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 15: Half of June is over and contrary to the common belief the Valley is calm. Barring weather everything else is cool. The show goes on smoothly. The separatists issue routine statements almost daily and he people are making hay as the tourist flow increases with every passing day.
Surprisingly the first fifteen days of the `dreaded' month have witnessed only one strike on June 11. The strike was called by Syed Ali Geelani to observe the death anniversary of Tufail Matto whose killing triggered what is now called as summer unrest.
The bygone months have comparatively witnessed more strikes meaning thereby that the months were politically hotter than the ... | |
| | | | Crime branch raids new FCI godown, seizes record | | Govt ration scam | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, June 15: To speed-up investigation into government ration scam worth crores of rupees, Crime Branch sleuths today raided new godown of Food Corporation of India (FCI) here at Narwal Balla.
Sources said that crime branch sleuths seized records pertaining to dispatch of foodgrains to CAPD stores. They added that from the CAPD stores, ration is further dispatched to different parts of the state. CB sleuths has earlier also seized records during the raid on the office of Assistant Director CAPD in Nehru Market on June 8.
Sources, with in Crime Branch, informed that today's raid was conducted to confirm, if there is a nexus between FCI employees, transporters and CAPD offi... | |
| | | | PA to DC Kishtwar roughed up by SPO, kept in illegal confinement | | CJM directs SHO to register FIR | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
KISHTWAR, June 15: Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Kishtwar today directed SHO Police Station Kishtwar under section 156 (3) Cr.P.C to register an FIR against Special Police Officer (SPO) Ranjeet Kumar under section 325/341/353/382/506/149 read with section 120B of RPC for allegedly beating up Rajesh Kumar Thakur, Personal Assistant to Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar, beside keeping him in illegal Confinement at old DPL Complex Kuleed Kishtwar.
The CJM vide his order no 284/CJM Dated 15-06-2001 further directed the SHO Kishtwar to conduct the medical examination of Rajesh Kumar and submit the compliance/Investigation report before the court.
According to the complaint fil... | |
| | | | What Unique About K? | | Fotedar ridicules HM Chidambaram | | | Neha
JAMMU, June 15: On June 13, senior Congress leader and former Union Minister ML Fotedar ridiculed Chidambaram and his unique-Kashmir-problem and unique-Kashmir-solution formulation and said that the accession of the state with India is final and irrevocable and that Chidambaram doesn't know anything about Jammu and Kashmir. "There is no question of J&K's accession with India being conditional. It is final and no one can challenge it," he said while ridiculing Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather, who say day in and day out that the accession of the state with India was "conditional." And, he ridiculed and cut to size Chidambaram saying "he speaks good E... | |
| | | | Omar “saddens” Vishal's family on tweeter | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 15: Tech-savvy chief minister Omar Abdullah is known for his tweets. He often tweets to share his feelings. Today, however, he saddened Vishal's family who was expecting from him a piece on the 3rd-degree police torture that has left him paralysed in both arms.
Vishal is the sole bread earner in his family and has not worked for two months now. Of his two younger brothers, one is forced by the circumstances to stop going to school and sit in their shop to make their livelihood.
The family is passing through a great mental agony. The police scare also haunts them day in, day out.Though Omar has already ordered an inquiry into the incident, the family expecte... | |
| | | | Observer's Notebook: PSOs For Every Tom, Dick and Harry | | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, June 15: A new breed of "leaders", not genuinely committed to politics, has raised its head fast in the state. Flaunting PSOs, they move everywhere with an "official" licence to lead the society astray.
Politics, as a medium of serving society, is never on their agenda. They nurture the aim of carving out a political platform which they could exploit to grind their own axe.
Though many of them have a criminal past, the prevailing political system in the state has made the going smooth for them till now.
The government has given them PSOs despite the fact that there is no imminent threat to their lives.
They are "protected" persons, but the fact remains that they ... | |
| | | | Karan hits nail on the head | | | | Rustam
JAMMU, June 15: Former Sadar-e-Riyasat and senior Congress leader Dr Karan Singh is not a loose-talker. He speaks occasionally and when he talks he talks sense. He always hits nail on the head, notwithstanding his controversial "national interest" formulation. (He described the transfer of power from the Congress to Sheikh Abdullah in 1975 as a move to protect national interest over looking the fact that the move had boomeranged with Sheikh Abdullah again upping his ante against India and negating what his predecessors, including Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad and Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq had done to integrate the state into India politically and constitutionally."
It was Dr Singh who did som... | |
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