Politics

The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Member of Parliament from Anantnag Hasnain Masoodi on Saturday impressed upon the divisional administration to rise up to the exigencies emanating in wake of heavy snowfall in South Kashmir districts. While calling for an immediate redressal of grievances of the general public in view of snowfall in the last two days, Masoodi made phone calls to respective district commissioners of South Kashmir and impressed upon them to ensure that surface connectivity and public utility services are restored in all South Kashmir districts forthwith. Drawing the attention of the district commissioners of Pulwama, Anantnag, Shopian, and Kulgam towards the plight of people, Masoodi implored upon them to issue directions to the concerned department invested wi...

The Jammu and Kashmir government must review its decision to 'declare' 1034 kanals of land at the famous ski-resort of Gulmarg and 354 kanals in another popular tourist destination Sonmarg as “strategic areas” for the use of armed forces, CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yousaf Tarigami said on Thursday. "These are two most popular tourist destinations in the valley, the senior political leader said remarking further there were already a lot of areas with the army for such purposes." Gulmarg and Sonamarg along with Pahalgam are three most popular tourist destinations in the Valley which need to be promoted for tourism purposes, Tarigami said underlining need of the hour is to develop tourism infrastructure in Kashmir which can generate employment for burgeoning numbers of unemployed youths. ...

The state unit of Bhartiya Janta Party has intensified its preparations for polls in Jammu Kashmir. Sources privy to the information told The Kashmiriyat that the BJP is conducting meetings to speed up the election preparations in the Kashmir division. They said that Bhartiya Janta Party general secretary Ashok Kaul, who arrived in Kashmir on Wednesday where he asked the office bearers of the BJP's district unit in Srinagar to accelerate the campaign for elections and conduct more public meetings. "The BJP is focussing primarily on Kupwara and Srinagar districts of the Kashmir valley where they have invested in generating man force and held rallies including on nationalist days, August 05 anniversary and almost every occasion," Sources said. Ashok Kaul is likely to visit the Kupw...

Former Chief Minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said that government of India was “deeply paranoid and intolerant when people of J&K want to protest against its disempowerment.” “GOI trumpets scrapping Article 370 & dismembering J&K throughout the country but is deeply paranoid & intolerant when people of J&K want to protest against its disempowerment. For the umpteenth time, we’ve been placed under house arrest for trying to organise a peaceful protest,” Mehbooba said in a tweet, adding, “I am also saddened by the tragic accident at Vaishno Devi & neither the administration the nor police are carrying out their duties. Instead they are engrossed in threatening people into silence. My condolences to the families of those who lost their lives,” ...

‘Real estate in J&K will be purchased by corporates whose sole aim is to maximize profits’ CPI (M) Secretary Ghulam Nabi Malik Tuesday said that the “Real Estate Summit” organized by the government to encourage corporate companies to buy land and other properties in Jammu and Kashmir will effect and endanger the livelihood of farmers of the region. “We have been saying for a long time that the Center’s sole motive to revoke erstwhile state’s special status in an unconstitutional and undemocratic manner was to put J&K on sale and annihilate our identity,” Malik said in a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). He said that allowing use of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes is another nail in the coffin of the “land to the tiller” reform...

Bhat Yasir National political party Congress' JK Spokesperson, Adv. Sheikh Amir, has demanded registration of an FIR against the organizers and speakers of the 'Dharam Sansad' for allegedly giving blasphemous and violence provoking speeches. The Spokesperson in his complaint, addressed to Station House Officer (SHO) of Baramulla Police Station, has demanded registration of FIR under section 153A, 295A and other relevant sections of IPC against the accused persons. While talking to The Kashmiriyat, Adv Sheikh Amir told that “Today, I registered a complaint for the lodgement of FIR against the persons who delivered provoking speeches at Dharam Sansad.” He also added that “I thought that somebody will speak about it but when no voice came from any of the corner of Kashmir, I realized...

There has been a slump in business and developmental activities in Jammu Kashmir over the last two and a half years and people are heading towards poverty, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said. In a veiled attack at the BJP, Azad said the autocratic rule of the maharajas was far better than the current dispensation, which stopped the traditional practice of the biannual "Darbar Move". Under the Darbar Move, the civil secretariat and other move offices used to function in Srinagar for six months of summer and in Jammu for the remaining six months of the year. It was initiated by Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1872. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha had on June 20 announced the end to the practice. "I was always supportive of the Darbar Move. The maharajas gave us three things which ...