Politics

Former Chief Minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah Monday said that the reluctance on part of the government to press the Supreme Court to go for hearings on petitions challenging the abrogation of the special status of Jammu Kashmir makes it clear that government doesn’t have a leg to stand on and he is even more hopeful now that the case of petitioners challenging government decision is very strong. Omar Abdullah was responding to a question during his press conference about the delay in hearing with regard to the petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370. Omar Abdullah as per the news agency Kashmir News Trust said that the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has assured them that he will make sure that the hearings begin in this matter. “So lon...

Amid the ongoing eviction drive in Jammu Kashmir, People Conference president Sajad Lone Saturday wrote a letter to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha urging him to issue a formal and unambiguous order, which spares the poor and makes a distinction between possession borne out of necessity and possession borne out of the land grab. In the letter, a copy of which lies with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Lone stated there have been voices across the social and political spectrum to spare the poorer sections over the government’s drive to retrieve state and grazing land. “I am taking the liberty of writing to you about the government's drive to retrieve state land and grazing land under the possession of private people. There have been voices across the social and political s...