Tag: Indian Elections

March 15 Former Mizoram Governor Aziz Qureshi has made a controversial remark on the Pulwama attack in which over 40 CRPF personnel were killed. “Plan karke aapne ye karwaya taki apko mauka mile, lekin janta samajhti hai. Agar Modi ji chahein ki 42 jawanon ki hatya karke, unki chitaon ki raakh se apna rajtilak kar lein, janta nahi karne degi. (You planned it and got it done, but public knows it. If Modi ji wants that he can ascend to power by murdering 42 jawans and use their ashes for his coronation, then people will not allow this),” Qureshi, a Congress leader, said. According to reports, Qureshi asked how the vehicle loaded with explosives was allowed to enter Jammu Kashmir. He added that if PM Modi thinks that he can win the election by planning the killing of 40 CRPF personnel then...

March 11 Hitting out at opposition leaders for being “unhappy” with air strikes on ‘terror camps’, BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday said his party would remove Article 370 from Kashmir “after forming the next BJP government” at the Centre. Criticising West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for questioning the Balakot air strikes in a bid to “appease” the minority vote bank, Shah asked her to come clean on whether she, too, wants a separate PM for Kashmir, just like her ally and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah. “Mamata Banerjee and opposition leaders are unhappy with the air strikes. They are questioning it just to appease their minority vote bank. But, I want to say it loud and clear that we won’t allow such forces to win. “We would remove Article 370 from Kashm...

April 09 Over 78 lakh voters out of the total 145 Million, including nearly 38 lakh women, would decide the fate of dozens of candidates from the six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu Kashmir, which are going to polls in five-phased election beginning Thursday. They include over 4.25 lakh new voters and 159 transgenders, State Chief Electoral Officer Shailendra Kumar told PTI. He added that 47,216 are PWD (people with disabilities) voters and 1,433 VIP voters. Kumar said a total of 11,316 polling stations – 5,450 in Jammu region, 5,307 in the Kashmir Valley and 559 in Ladakh – would be set up to enable 78,42979 electorate, including 37,75,227 women, and 159 transgenders to exercise their franchise. Among the new voters who were inducted into the final list within a short period of th...

April 08 The BJP in its Lok Sabha election manifesto released on Monday pledged to explore all possibilities to facilitate the construction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya. The Manifesto also said that it will secure constitutional protection on issues related to faith and belief on the Sabarimala temple and promised to bring a Uniform Civil Code. ALSO READ: BJP Promises to Abrogate Article 35A and Article 370 In its Manifesto The party promised that it will expand and popularise the teaching of Sanskrit in schools throughout India. It said an International Cultural Festival will be organised on a grand scale every year in five different states to showcase and promote the rich diversity of Indian culture. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its election m...

April 08 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its manifesto and has promised to eliminate Article 370 of the Constitution that grants autonomous status to the state of Jammu Kashmir. "In the last five years, we have made all necessary efforts to ensure peace in Jammu Kashmir through decisive actions and a firm policy. We are committed to overcome all obstacles that come in the way of development and provide adequate financial resources to all the regions of the state. We reiterate our position, since the time of the Jan Sangh, to the abrogation of Article 370," the BJP Lok Sabha election manifesto reads. ALSO READ: Killings of Force Personnel Increased, Stone Pelting at Encounter Sites Started in Modi’s Tenure Calling Article 35 A, an obstacle to State's Developm...

April 06 Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of hogging credit for the Balakot air strike, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Friday dared him to hold a rifle “for just five minutes” or travel alone in a bus in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing a poll rally here, Gandhi said the only thing “chowkidar” Modi did was to ensure “his boss” industrialist Anil Ambani got the Rafale fighter jet contract. The Congress believes in uniting people while theBJP divides people, he said.“It was the Air Force personnel who displayed real valour by carrying out the air strike in Pakistan,” he said. The Indian Air Force carried out strikes on terrorist camps in Balakot in Pakistan after the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF men were killed.“(But) the prime minister says he did it. You (Modi) did it?...

April 05 More than 600 theatre personalities, including Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad and Usha Ganguli, have signed a letter asking people to “vote BJP and its allies” out of power, arguing that the idea of India and its constitution are under threat. The letter, which was issued Thursday evening in 12 languages on the Artist Unite India website, said the upcoming Lok Sabha elections are the “most critical in the history” of the country. ALSO READ: To Make Modi Rally Successful in Bihar, Family of CRPF Soldier Not Informed about his Death in Kashmir Among those who have signed the letter are Shanta Gokhale, Mahesh Elkunchwar, Mahesh Dattani, Arundhati Nag, Kirti Jain, Abhishek Majumdar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak Shah, Lillete Dubey, Mita Vashisth, M K Rai...