Category: Community

Rebel candidates hit out at saffron party for ‘Terrorising’ them

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For the last one week, Amit Khandari, Independent candidate from Ward Number 10 of the Poonch Municipal Committee, is moving from pillar to post to get security but to no avail. He alleges that his request is being ignored as he dared to contest election as a rebel against BJP’s official candidate. “By abusing power, the local BJP leadership has mounted pressure on the administration against giving security to party leaders who dared to contest as rebels,” Khandari told Kashmir Post. He said, “I have brought this matter to the…

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Post NC worker killings, BJP asks its cadres to be extra vigilant and not to leave safe places

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Hours after the killing of two National Conference activists in old Srinagar, Bharatiya Janta Party asked its candidates not to leave the secure places allotted to them by the government. “We have asked the candidates to be extra vigilant,” BJP general secretary (Organizations) Ashok Kaul told Kashmir Post. He condemned the killing of NC workers and termed it “unfortunate”. Kaul dismissed reports saying BJP candidates had resigned from the party or withdrawn from the contest. “Nobody is back tracking, these are rumours,” he said, adding that in the prevailing Kashmir…

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Petrol, Diesel cheaper by Rs 5 per litre across J&K

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Petrol and Diesel prices in Jammu and Kashmir have been slashed by Rs 5 per litre, the state government said Thursday. “The state government this evening announced matching cut of Rs 2.50 per litre in fuel prices commensurate with the price cut of Rs 2.50, announced by the central government earlier today,” an official spokesman said. The new fuel prices would be effective in the state from this midnight, he said.

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Recruited under PDP-BJP govt, 10000 SPOs under scanner

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After a special police officer (SPO) of the J&K Police deserted the force and decamped with eight weapons to join the Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit, intelligence agencies are mulling verifying credentials of SPOs recruited during the tenure of the previous PDP-BJP regime. The step is being taken as there are allegations that the recruitment was made on the recommendations of politicians belonging to the ruling parties. On September 28, SPO Adil Bashir Sheikh from Shopian, who was posted at the residence of PDP MLA Aijaz Mir, fled with seven AK-series…

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Four days left for voting, but poll din missing across Kashmir Valley

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The municipal elections are starting from October 8, but the familiar din attached to campaigning is missing in the Valley. The Congress and BJP have embarked on a hushed campaign to woo voters in the Valley due to security concerns. The two main parties contesting the elections after a boycott by the National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party have given the rallies a miss and their campaigns are revolved around person-to-person contacts and meetings at secure areas. At the lawns of the guarded Circuit House close to the Gupkar Road…

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J&K Pollution Control Board ‘Ignores’ genuine aspirants to ‘Adjust’ former minister’s kin

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A grave instance of “murder of merit” due to alleged political connections has come to the fore in the J&K Pollution Control Board. The PCB recently employed the son-in-law of a former minister as Assistant Information Officer, ignoring the requisite qualification for the post — a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism. The appointee is an arts graduate. Documents, which are in possession of Kashmir Post, reveal that while conferring the benefit on a junior candidate, Tanveer Ahmad Dar, who is son-in-law of former state Education Minister, the Board brazenly…

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SPO Adil Bashir who deserted the force with eight weapons in Srinagar, joins Hizbul Mujahideen

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A special police officer (SPO) who deserted the force and decamped with eight weapons from the official residence of a PDP MLA, has joined the Hizbul Mujahideen as his photographs with the top commanders of the militant outfit have gone viral on social media. A police official said they have taken cognisance of the photographs but refused to comment any further on the issue. SPO Adil Bashir fled with seven AK rifles and a pistol from the residence of PDP legislator Aijaz Ahmad Mir from Jawahar Nagar area of Srinagar…

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NC-PDP should stake claim for govt formation, ready to join hands on Article 35A: Altaf Bukhari

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The People’s Democratic Party and National Conference should come together to form the government in the “larger interests” of Jammu and Kashmir, the senior PDP leader and former finance minister Syed Altaf Bukhari said on Friday. “This is the right thing to do (to have the NC-PDP alliance) in the present situation when our identity is under attack,” Bukhari said, when asked about the possibility of the two arch-rivals coming together to form the next government in the state, which is presently under Governor’s rule. Talking to media on the…

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SPO Adil Bashir posted at PDP MLA’s residence in Srinagar flees with 10 weapons

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A  Special police officer (SPO) posted at the residence of PDP MLA from Wachi constituency Aijaz Ahmad Mir fled on Friday with 10 weapons. According to the police, SPO Adil Bashir went missing from the Jawahar Nagar residence of the PDP MLA where he was posted. SPO Adil Bashir went missing, along with 10 weapons, from the guard room at the residence of PDP MLA from Wachi constituency Aijaz Ahmad Mir, the police said. The SPO, who hails from the militancy-hit Shopian district of south Kashmir, has taken away 10…

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Chance for BJP to fill vacuum as NC, PDP boycott but terror threats may deter mass participation

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In 2011, as Jammu and Kashmir geared up for panchayat elections after a long hiatus, Ghulam Hassan Panzoo, then a teacher in the government’s service, resigned from his job to contest the polls from his village with the hope to drive forward development projects there. He won with 740 votes in the village – Panzoo in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district – that had about as many households, he said. After years of neglect infrastructure schemes had started to be undertaken but the awe that the law on papers inspired in…

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