Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah said he doesn’t believe in “capital punishment” and that the execution of the 2001 Parliament attack case convict, Afzal Guru, did not serve any purpose. In an interview with news agency ANI, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, “The unfortunate thing was that the…
Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Polls: The Election Commission of India on September 5 issued a notification for the filing of nomination papers by candidates for the third and final phase of the upcoming assembly in Jammu and Kashmir. As many as 40 seats of the 90-member J-K assembly will vote in the third phase of…
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and other leaders, are in Jammu and Kashmir on a two-day visit to assess the party’s preparations for the upcoming assembly polls in the Union Territory and explore a likely alliance with the National Conference (NC). The three-phase assembly polls in the UT are scheduled to…
Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge reached Srinagar on Wednesday. They will spend two days in Jammu and Kashmir and take stock of the party’s preparations for the 2024 assembly polls. Gandhi and Kharge may also explore the possibility of forging an alliance with Farooq Abdullah’s…
The Bharatiya Janata Party has appointed RSS leader and former party general secretary, Ram Madhav as election in-charge for the coming Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir. Madhav is returning with a responsibility in the erstwhile state where he was instrumental in stitching up BJP’s unlikely coalition government with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in…
The nomination process for the first phase of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir began on August 20 with the issuance of official notification. As many as 24 seats across six districts of the erstwhile state are voting in the first phase on September 18. The last date for filing submission of nominations for this…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has named Iltija Mufti, daughter of party president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, as the constituency in-charge for the Bijbehara assembly seat in Jammu and Kashmir, paving way for her electoral debut. The party nominated constituency incharges for eight assembly segments – seven in south Kashmir including Bijbehara and…
