Politics

Former Chief Minister and PDP president said after placing security bunkers at every nook and corner of Srinagar, CRPF personnel have been pushed into marriage halls which is only left for people here. Talking to micro blogging site, Twitter, Mehbooba Mufti said "After placing security bunkers at every nook & corner of Srinagar, CRPF personnel have been pushed into marriage halls which is the only private space left for people here. Everyday more draconian laws r brought in with the sole purpose of suffocating people into silence,(sic), she said. The move comes after two days , after CRPF occupied two marriage halls in the city.

The Jammu Kashmir National Conference on Thursday expressed concern over the erratic power supply in Kashmir division saying the  consumers are facing hardships due to the unscheduled power cuts. Echoing the outrage of the consumers Party General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar said the residents of Uptown and Downtown areas are irked at due to the unscheduled outages. “I’ve been receiving phone calls from various people from uptown as well as Shahar e Khas areas about the hide and seek that the electricity is playing with them. It is anybody’s guess what the situation would be in the rural and far-flung areas. Electricity is snapped for two to three hours during a day,” he said. “For the first few days, the aggravated consumers were told that power cuts were because of some repairs. Th...

Bhartiya Janata Party's (BJP's) Jammu Kashmir president Ravinder Raina Friday said that Assembly elections will be held in JK soon after the delimitation process and that "there will be a BJP chief minister and BJP government in the UT." Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of Bhaviya Pooja and famous Shankarcharya temple in Srinagar, Raina said that once the delimitation process would end, Assembly elections would be held in J&K. "Let me tell you, the way people of J&K are accepting BJP, there will be BJP chief minister and BJP government in the UT," he said as per news agency-Kashmir News Observer (KNO) Raina said that denying air-space by Pakistan to direct flight from Srinagar to Sharjah reflects the "ill-mindset of the neighbor" and the move is totally unfair. "Flights...

In a major jolt to the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, senior party leader and district president Ganderbal, Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar on Thursday resigned from the party post. Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, Ishfaq Jabbar said that he has resigned from the post of district president Jammu Kashmir National Conference Ganderbal. "I'm resigning from the post of District President @JKNC_Ganderbal & I will continue to carry forward the mission of Sher-e-Kashmir for which the people of J&K have sacrificed," he Tweeted. (KF)

The Jammu Kashmir unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday removed party leader and former MLC Vikram Randhawa from all party posts. According to news agency-Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Randhawa, as per the order issued by BJP's J&K president, Ravinder Raina has been relieved from all the posts including that of J&K BJP Secretary post, with immediate effect. Randhawa has been removed days after he made anti-Muslim statement. "Mr. Vikram Randhawa (Former MLC) is relieved from all party posts/responsibilities including the post of BJP J&K-UT secretary post with immediate effect" the order reads-(KNO)

Irshad Hussain As the women members of National conference tried to take out peaceful protest march from their office, in Srinagar. Police came and foiled their attempt. " Don't close the gates of our office, let us allow to hit the streets against this ongoing injustice in Kashmir, " Shouted the Women members of National conference.? Scores of women members of Jammu Kashmir National Conference staged protest against the detention of Kashmiri students in Agra here on Monday. Carrying placards which read " Withdraw FIR's, Save Future of Medical Students, " The protest march was led by women wing president of National conference Shameema Firdous. After the India Pakistan T20 world Cup match, the politics of Jammu and Kashmir has literally changed, as there are demands from mainst...

In yet another blow to the Jammu Kashmir national Conference, eight leaders, including a former minister and an ex-MLA, switched to Bharatiya Janata Party. On October 19, former minister Prem Sagar Aziz had quit primary membership of the party. In a statement, Aziz said that he was in Congress for four decades and had joined NC because of Devendar Rana. "As I know that he is working for the cause of Jammu, I support his cause unequivocally," he had said. "Now that Rana has dissociated himself from the National Conference for the sake of Jammu, I cannot continue in the party and extend my support to Rana," Prem Sagar had said in a statement. Other leaders who join BJP include Dharamvir Jamwal (Ex Dy Mayor), Ch Arshad, Som Nath Khajuria, Suchha Singh (Corporator JMC), Ashok Manhas (...