September 22, 2017 | Kashmir POST

Kashmir based BJP leaders upset with ‘Arrogant’ Ministers

September 22, 2017 Editor

Kashmir-based BJP leaders today complained about the high-handed attitude of party ministers at a meeting with party general secretary Ram Madhav in Srinagar. The leaders condemned the arrogant style of functioning of party ministers while solving day-to-day problems of the people. Sources said that at the meeting, which was convened by Ram Madhav to discuss organisational matters, some annoyed leaders seized the opportunity to expose their nominees in the government. “In the meeting attended by over 40 prominent leaders of the Valley, the style of functioning of ministers was opposed…

No let up in strike against shifting of batamaloo bus stand

September 22, 2017 Editor

Traders and transporters continued to protest against the shifting of the General Bus Stand from Batamaloo to Parimpora. They threatened to launch an agitation if their demand is not met. The transporters also continued with the shutdown in the Batamaloo area and said they would continue to oppose the shifting of the bus stand. The traders and transporters, under the banner of the All Traders’ Joint Coordination Committee, held a sit-in at Batamaloo. As soon as the protesters started their march towards the civil secretariat, where the office of the…

Pellets force Kashmiri youths to drop out of schools and give up jobs post losing sight

September 22, 2017 Editor

Twenty-six-year-old, Mohammad Ashraf Wani has discontinued his college education. He was blinded in an eye after government forces fired pellets at him last year on 31 October near his home at Rohmoo in Pulwama. The pellets scarred his body and, despite multiple surgeries, he was unable to regain vision in right eye. In 2016, when protests in Kashmir had become fierce after the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Burhan Muzafar Wani, the 26-year-old received pellets as he was watching the protests go on. Like Ashraf, there are other large number…

Won’t fiddle with Article 35A, 370 till we are in coalition with PDP: Ram Madhav

September 22, 2017 Editor

BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav Thursday has told party leaders from Valley that the government won’t fiddle with the Article 35-A and Article 370 till they are in the coalition with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said. Sources said Madhav held closed door meeting with BJP Kashmir unit workers and functionaries at Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh’s residence, here. “During the meeting, Madhav assured the BJP workers that the Government of India (GoI) will stick to the Agenda of Alliance with PDP and won’t fiddle with…

BJP faces Jammu’s ire on Hari Singh holiday issue

September 22, 2017 Editor

Delay in declaring a state holiday on the birth anniversary of last Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh on September 23 is snowballing into a big controversy as the ruling BJP is facing ire of people of the Jammu region for “succumbing” to the PDP on the issue. Not only the mainstream political parties, such as the Congress, Panthers Party and NC, have supported the demand, social organisations also took BJP ministers to the task for bartering peoples’ aspirations for power. “The BJP ministers should keep in mind that it is…

Chief Minister, Joint Resistance Leadership, Hizb, NC others condemn tral attack

September 22, 2017 Editor

The grenade blast in Tral in which two civilians were killed and 35 others injured came in for strong condemnation on Thursday. The joint separatist leadership comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik expressed deep shock and grief over the loss of precious lives of innocent civilians in the explosion, saying “rampant construction of camps and bunkers by Indian forces everywhere in the densely-populated areas has made life of innocent people miserable and vulnerable.” In a joint statement, the leaders prayed for the deceased and expressed…

Talks offer open to all stakeholders, even Hurriyat: Ram Madhav

September 22, 2017 Editor

Bharatiya Janata Party national general secretary Ram Madhav today said New Delhi had kept its doors open for a dialogue on the Kashmir issue without any pre-conditions. “We have maintained that our doors are open to all stakeholders in the state… they are welcome to come and have a dialogue… whoever wants to talk to the Central government, we are open to dialogue. We are open to talk to everybody who wants to come and have a dialogue with us…without any preconditions,” Madhav told reporters here. He made the comments…