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| Panthers Party pulls out of Kashmir coalition | | Indo-Asian News Service | | |
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Panthers Party chief Bhim Singh Sunday withdrew support to the Congress-led coalition government in the state alleging partial behaviour towards the Jammu region.
Singh made the announcement here at a party meeting, saying: "Jammu has been the worst victim of discrimination during the coalition rule. We are left with no option but to quit (from the government)."
Failure to constitute a delimitation commission and giving equal status to Jammu in decision-making, jobs and development were other charges levelled against the ruling coalition.
Singh also said the state Congress had failed to distance itself from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is calli... | |
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Udhampur, June 17
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Lieutenant General H S Panag, today rule-out any troop reduction in Jammu and Kashmir and said that the total deployment of Army in the state was three lakh thirty three thousand out of which about eighty thousand was assigned the job of counter terrorism while rest of them are placed at other positions.
According to sources, Jammu and Kashmir has world's largest strength of army deployment and political parties of the state have been demanding troop reduction.
In a media interaction on the eve of 36th raising day of Udhampur based army's northern command, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Lieutenant General HS Panag, sa... | |
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Sanjay Khajuria
Jammu June 17
Different ideologies and regional politics projected by various alliance partners and riding on specific regional aspirations in polls-2002 have now become a root cause of bickering within the coalition. Alleging discrimination with Jammu and failure to implement CMP, the Chairman JKNPP Bhim Singh has decided to call on Sonia Gandhi chairperson UPA to apprise her with his decision of withdrawal from coalition.
The formal warning about the withdrawal from coalition on May 28 by none other but the Chairman Bhim Singh himself has brought to light that all is not well in coalition. Alleging discrimination with Jammu and harping anti- national tunes of ... | |
| | | | Panthers, finally decides, says ‘We are out’ | | | |
Jammu,June 17
The Panthers Party, which
has four members in the 87-member state
Assembly, today withdrew its support to the Congress
led coalition Government in Jammu and Kashmir.
The decision to withdraw the support was taken at a
meeting of the party delegates in Jammu which was
presided over by Bhim Singh, its chief.
The Panthers Party had lent support to the coalition
Government since its formation in November 2002. Mufti
Mohd.Sayeed,who headed the coalition between 2002 and
2005,had included two members from the Panthers in the
council of Ministers. However, after Ghulam Nabi Azad
replaced Mufti; Panthers Party had been denied
berth in the cabinet.
Harsh Dev S... | |
| | | | Army not to seek assistance from any country in fighting terror | | | |
Jammu, June 17
The Indian Army had no plan
for seeking "assistance" from any armies in the world
in its ongoing counterinsurgency operations in the
troubled Jammu and Kashmir state.
This was stated by General Officer commanding in
Chief,Northern Command,Lt.Gen. H.S.Panag,at a news
conference in the command's headquarters at
Udhampur. Panag was
replying to a question regarding recent visit of a
seven member Israeli Army delegation to Jammu and
Kashmir and said "the Israeli
team was not here to
assist us in counter insurgency operations."
The Army commander said "we have the best Army and
other countries seek our assistance in handling a
situation similar to the on... | |
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