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BJP leader Kavinder Gupta posts, then deletes, tweet about Jammu and Kashmir’s ‘Identity’

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 Editor

The comments come as the Supreme Court is hearing petitions challenging the changes made to Article 370 by the Centre since 2019. Jammu and Kashmir had its separate identity even when India was an undivided “subcontinent”, former J&K deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta said Sunday, in what is being seen as criticism by a BJP leader of the party-led Centre’s 2019 move to revoke the erstwhile state’s special status. In a tweet on the origin of the J&K Bank, which he later deleted, a line Gupta posted in Urdu read: “Tum jab…

J&K Govt approves 5-Marla land scheme for Landless People

August 26, 2023 Editor

The J&K administration has sanctioned the scheme to allocate five marlas of state land to landless individuals on lease basis, ensuring that only those having domicile in the UT can avail the benefit. This scheme, launched by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in July this year, faced criticism from Kashmir-based political parties, prompting the administration to provide clarifications about the eligible beneficiaries. The Revenue Department issued a set of guidelines, granting approval for the scheme to landless beneficiaries of the PMAY(G)/Awas Plus programme. The people, out of the Rural Development Department’s…

The Kashmir Files: A Case Study in BJP’s Use of Cinema for Political Gain

August 25, 2023 Editor

The film, which won the National Award on Thursday, was criticised by the Opposition after it was released last year; it was also at the centre of a row at a film festival when an Israeli director labelled it “propaganda”. Honoured with a National Film Award for Best Film for National Integration, The Kashmir Files is a movie that has divided opinions ever since it was released last year because of its contested portrayal of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus from Kashmir in 1990. The film caused a stir last November…

SC seeks clarity on whether Constituent Assembly speeches can be used to challenge abrogation of Article 370

August 24, 2023 Editor

The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed doubts that the Constituent assembly debates or a speech by one of its “weighty” members could represent a “commitment by the Dominion of India to the state of Jammu & Kashmir” regarding perpetuity of the latter’s special status under Article 370, observing that such an inference would be difficult to be accepted as a legal principle. “Can we say that a speech made by an individual member of the Constituent Assembly, howsoever weighty, represents a binding commitment of the Dominion of India to the…

Supreme Court seeks clarification on whether constituent assembly speech on Article 370 is binding

August 23, 2023 Editor

G N Azad’s remarks on Muslims are ‘Reprehensible’ and ‘Echo RSS-BJP Ideology’: Mehbooba Mufti

August 21, 2023 Editor

BJP Government should take a lesson from Mishal Malik’s Nomination into Pakistan Interim Government” The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti has termed the recent statement of Ghulam Nabi Azad on Indian Muslim as highly regrettable and said that it echoes the ideology and narrative of RSS BJP against the Muslims of the Country. Azad had said that all the Muslims in India were essentially Hindus who had converted to Islam only some time back. Mufti said that Azad’s remarks were “dangerous and divisive” and that they “resemble the…

Mehbooba Mufti accuses J&K Admin of ‘Hooliganism’ in terminating Kashmiri employees

August 20, 2023August 20, 2023 Editor

Selectively terminating Kashmiri employees by wrongfully dubbing them as terrorist sympathisers & pro ISI has been normalised, Mehbooba wrote PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on August 20 slammed the Jammu and Kashmir administration for selectively terminating Kashmiri employees from service by labelling them as “terrorist sympathisers”. Ms. Mehbooba’s reaction comes a day after the Jammu and Kashmir Bank sacked its chief manager Sajad Ahmad Bazaz for allegedly being a “threat to the security of the State”. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, the former chief minister wrote, “Selectively…

Govt extends deadline for Registration of Bonafide Migrants, DPs for Domicile Certificate

August 18, 2023 Editor

J&K government Thursday extended the validity of its order providing for registration of bonafide migrants or Displaced Persons (DPs) for the purpose of issuance of Domicile certificate for a period of one year i.e., till May 15, 2024. “It Is hereby ordered that the validity of Government Order No 52-JK(DMRRR) of 2020 dated May 16, 2020 extended vide Government Order No 44-JK(DMRRR) of 2021 dated June 22, 2021 and Government Order No 30-JK(DMRRR) of 2022 dated June 10, 2022 is hereby further extended for a period of one year i.e.,…

Article 370 Abrogation Case: Arguments to Continue in Supreme Court on Day 7

August 18, 2023 Editor

Several petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which split the erstwhile State into two Union Territories — Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh — were referred to a Constitution Bench in 2019. Senior advocate Dushyant Dave on Thursday argued in the Supreme Court that the abrogation of Article 370 is a colourable exercise of powers since the BJP government in its 2019 manifesto had proposed the repeal of Article 370. Mr. Dave also argued that Article 370 had ‘achieved its life’ and…

Omar Abdullah slams Admin for removing Sheikh Abdullah’s name from SKICC

August 18, 2023 Editor

‘Sher-e-Kashmir is being removed from J&K’s institutions. Those responsible will be removed soon. Let them erase. The next government will restore Sher-e-Kashmir’ Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah lashed out at the government for dropping his grandfather Sheikh Abdullah’s title from the Union Territory’s public architectural buildings. Omar said that you can’t remove “Sher-i-Kashmir’s” name from the people’s hearts. Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who founded the National Conference, was fondly called ‘Sher -i-Kashmir’ or “Lion of Kashmir” and multiple buildings are named after the leader. Recently, the information and public…