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| Strong independents give sleepless nights to mainstream parties | | Assembly Polls | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 18: Some Independents emerging strong contenders in their respective assembly segments have added worries for their mainstream parties as these Independents are giving tough fights to their official candidates.
While some Independents are rebels of the mainstream parties, some of them are contesting elections independently.
Over half a dozen Independent candidates are emerging as strong contenders in their respective constituencies in Jammu province.
In the prestigious Chhamb assembly segment of Jammu district where Congress stalwart and former Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand is contesting elections against BJP’s Rajiv Sharma. Rebel candidates of both parties have added woes for the national parties.
Satish Sharma, son of two-time Lok Sabha member Madan Lal Sharma, is in the fray as a rebel candidate of the Congress party. Narendra Singh Bhau is BJP’s rebel candidate in the same constituency.
Bhau and Satish Sharma have added worries for both the official candidates of BJP and Congress in this prestigious segment.
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| BJP suspends 3 rebel leaders | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 18: Three senior BJP leaders were suspended on Wednesday for contesting assembly elections against the party’s official candidates in Jammu and Kashmir, a party spokesman said.
J&K BJP vice president Pawan Khajuria along with senior party leaders, Balwan Singh and Narinder Singh Bhau, were suspended from the membership of the party on the recommendation of a disciplinary committee headed by Sunil Sethi, the spokesman said.
Khajuria and Singh had entered the election fray as an independent and a candidate of National Panthers Party (NPP), respectively from Udhampur East assembly segment where BJP has fielded former MLA R S Pathania.
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| | | | Omar hopeful of NC-Congress alliance victory | | | 
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 18: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Wednesday expressed hope that voters in Jammu and Kashmir would avoid “fragmentation of their votes”, warning that many independent candidates in the Valley were contesting with the aim to divide the ballot. “People will have to keep it (a huge number of independent candidates contesting) in mind, because most of these candidates are in Kashmir. It seems it is an attempt to fragment votes and div... | |
| | | | Union Cabinet approves one nation, one election proposal | | | 
NEW DELHI, Sept 18:
Agences
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the government’s ‘One Nation, One Election’ proposal which proposes simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, with urban body and panchayat polls to be held within 100 days.
The recommendations were made in a report of a hight panel committee led by former President Ram Nath Kovind.
Addressing a press conference in the national capital, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, “The Union Cabinet has accepted the re... | |
| | | | Gives nod to continuation of PM-AASHA scheme | | | 
New Delhi, Sep 18:
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The government has approved continuation of the PM-AASHA scheme, with an outlay of Rs 35,000 crore, to provide better prices to farmers and also control price volatility of essential commodities for consumers.
“The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the continuation of schemes of Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan (PM-AASHA) to provide remunerative prices to farmers and to control price volatility of essential com... | |
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