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Rajnath, Jaitly arriving today

7/5/2008 12:16:38 PM

Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 4 To give further impetus to the ongoing agitation in Jammu, the BJP national president Rajnath Singh and general secretary Arun Jaitly are arriving here tomorrow. The BJP which has made the amaranth yatra an issue of nationwide agitation will hold consultations with the local cadres. Top leader LK Advani has already said that the BJP will make the controversy over Amarnath yatra as an issue in the upcoming elections in several states as also the Lok Sabha elections. Addressing a press conference here at party headquarters state BJP Chief Ashok Khajuria said that National President Raj Nath Singh and national general secretary Arun Jaitley will be...

Adventurous Bhim earns SC wrath

‘Don’t draw political mileage from yatra issue’

7/5/2008 12:16:09 PM

Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 4 The Panthers Party leader Bhim Singh who has knack for dragging all issues to the apex court of the country today earned wrath of Supreme Court Judges for seeking to draw political mileage out of the present controversy over Shri Amarnath Pilgrimage. Refusing to interfere in government decision of revoking the land transfer to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, a Bench of Supreme Court cautioned Bhim Singh not extract political mileage out of it. Bhim Singh had filed a Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court in his personal capacity which came for hearing today. Among other things he also sought lifting of curfew on which Supreme Court observed that ...

Azad facilitated communal agenda of Sinha, says PDP

7/5/2008 12:15:40 PM

Early Times Reporter Srinagar | July 4 Responding to the statements of former Governor Lt Gen (retd) SK Sinha as carried by the media, the Peoples Democratic Party today said that such outpourings can only come out of a diseased mind and these could not deter us from our duty towards the peopl". A PDP spokesman said Gen Sinha was upset with Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as the latter had proved a stumbling block in his scheme to communalize the situation in the State and implement his Hindutva agenda. "The former Governor's attempts to run the Shrine Board as an independent republic within the State were effectively thwarted by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for three years and Gen Sinha's anger is under...

PDP politicized yatra for electoral gains: Gen Sinha

7/5/2008 12:15:15 PM

Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 4 The former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Lt Gen SK Sinha who demitted the Raj Bhawan amidst raging controversy on June 25 has said that some vested interests, in an obvious reference to the Peoples Democratic Party and separatists, have made attempts to communalize the most secular tradition of Kashmir –the Amarnath Yatra. In an exclusive interview to Jammu based monthly magazine EPILOGUE, the only interview he gave to any media outlet on eve of demitting Raj Bhawan, Gen Sinha says Peoples Democratic Party deliberately politicized the issue of Amarnath pilgrimage with an aim to gain in the forthcoming assembly elections. “In election years such politi...

Phony Farmaish: Peace Please

CM speaks to warring leaders, seek their cooperation

7/5/2008 12:14:49 PM

Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 4 In his firefighting efforts to restore peace in Jammu region which is under a raging fire on the issue of Amarnath Shrine land controversy, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today spoke to leaders of all those parties which did not attend his all-party meeting for a collective effort on maintaining law and order. The Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad sought cooperation of various political parties in normalising situation and maintaining communal harmony in Jammu division even as he called a meeting of his party ministers, legislators and corporators asking them to fan out in different parts of the province to undo the propaganda unleashed by vested i...

Fast track: 70 activists released

Corporator denied bail, sent to jail

7/5/2008 12:14:20 PM

Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 4 More than 70 political activists from different parties during the ongoing protests and demonstrations were today released on bail as two local courts cleared more than 100 bail applications moved by the Legal Aid Committee of Jammu Bar Association. Prominent among those released on bail today were senior BJP leaders Dr Nirmal Singh and Chowdhary Piara Singh. The court, however, refused bail to Corporator Sheila Kaul Handoo who has been sent to judicial custody till July 13. The Chief Judicial Magistrate Jammu YP Bourney and Special Municipal Magistrate MS Parihar today held Court at Janipur Court Complex and decided more than 100 bail applications ...

Govt bans politics at Hazratbal

Separatists intensify activities, Shah critically injured in stone pelting

7/5/2008 12:13:51 PM

Early Times Reporter Srinagar | July 4 Situation once again assumed volatile proportions in Srinagar this afternoon as Police resisted thousands of people marching towards Hazratbal shrine to celebrate victory on cancellation of land transfer orders to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board. The mob resorted to stone pelting in which senior separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah sustained critical injuries and was hospitalized. Other separatist leaders, Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq were placed under house arrest to prevent them from organising a rally to celebration the cancellation of land allotment to the Amarnath shrine board. The separatist Hurriyat Conference led by Farooq and its bre...

PDP, PP whips for defeating Govt

7/5/2008 12:13:12 PM

Early Times Reporter Jammu | July 4 With just two days left for the biggest political showdown of last two decades, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is reportedly counting on the elements of dissidence as parties today issues whips for the trust vote to be held on the floor of legislative assembly in Srinagar on Monday. Amidst calculation of numbers, the Peoples Democratic Party and Panthers Party today issued whips to their party legislators to attend the special session of legislature and vote against the Ghulam Nabi Azad led minority government. The opposition National Conference, which has repeatedly said to oppose the trust vote, was yet to make any such announcement and so was ...

Gen Sinha now camp follower of BJP, RSS

Early Times prediction turning true

7/5/2008 12:12:30 PM

Early Times Special Correspondent Jammu | July 4 News Analysis True to our prediction made under the News Analysis with the heading "Is Gen Sinha, like Jagmohan, being pushed into BJP lap?", Early Times June 14 issue, the PDP and the Central Congress leadership have contrived to finally push former J&K Governor Gen S K Sinha into the BJP lap. While PDP along with all the secessionist and Islamic fundamentalist elements in Kashmir have for past sometime been dubbing Gen S K Sinha as a camp follower of Hindutava forces, pursuing their agenda in Kashmir and a BJP man, the statement issued recently by Congress Spokesperson Jayanti Natrajan, blamed former J&K Governor and Chairman SASB, Gen. ...

Azad ignores "Devtas" inhabiting Jammu

7/5/2008 12:06:37 PM

Gareeb Dass Jammu | July 4 Chief Minister,Ghula Nabi Azad,seems to be upset over the way people in Jammu resorted to unprecedented violence in protest against the revocation of the land order.Since he had the impression that the Jammuites are "Devtas",as he described them during his press conference on Thursday,he had never imagined that they could set Jammu on fire.He had expected only Kashmiris to resort to violence.He had learnt from experience that Kashmiris take to the streets while giving vent to their anger.And this time the Jammuites set a new record by responding fully to the 144-hour Bandh call.They exhibited their energy and vigour for clashing with the gun and lathi weilding p...