Tag: Peoples Democratic Party

Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Friday urged the Election Commission not to delay polling in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency, the Hindustan Times reported.Voting in the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency is scheduled for May 7.Mufti and Abdullah’s appeal came a day ...

The silence of villages in south Kashmir was on Wednesday interrupted by the noise of car engines and loudspeakers. For the first time since the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in 2019, south Kashmir’s Pulwama and Shopian districts were witnessing political activity at this scale. Leading the ...

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Srinagar-Budgam Lok Sabha seat, Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra. | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmad A door-to-door campaign and open-field canvassing by Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, 34-year-old Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Srinagar-Budgam Lok Sabha seat, has kicked off an unusual bustle in the once militancy-dominated pockets ...

The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday announced its candidates for all three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir, reported PTI.The parliamentary board chief of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sartaj Madni, said that party chief Mehboobs Mufti will contest the general elections from Kashmir’s Anantnag constituency, while its youth wing president ...

Anyone will be forgiven for thinking that the events of this week alone are enough to understand the mistrust between the National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the two significant regional parties of Jammu and Kashmir. PREMIUM Omar Abdullah (left) and Mehbooba Mufti Here’s a quick ...

Omar Abdullah | Photo Credit: ANI National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah ruled out a pre-poll alliance with INDIA bloc ally Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday. PDP president and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti termed the development as “a painful setup for the people“.The announcement has brought ...

Mehbooba Mufti. | Photo Credit: PTI J&K’s former Chief Ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah on Thursday claimed the J&K Lieutenant Governor’s administration “forced” government employees to attend the public rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Srinagar’s Bakshi Stadium and Kashmir International Convention Centre.   Ms. Mufti, president of the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on March 6 said the core issue in Kashmir is not development and highlighted the approach adopted by BJP leader and ex-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during his 2003 visit. The statement comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to the Valley on ...

Around 2,000 residents of Kalai village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch have pooled their own resources to turn a privately owned piece of agricultural land into a sports complex, which they hope will keep the youth away from narcotics and attempts by militant groups to revive terror activity in ...

While the Court of Inquiry (CoI) constituted by the Army to investigate the circumstances leading to the death of three civilians in Poonch last week following an ambush is still under progress, initial statements are said to have pointed to excesses by Army personnel in the incident, officials familiar ...