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2024 J&K Polls Turnout Likely to Miss 2014 Benchmark

October 2, 2024 Editor

In the recently held Lok Sabha polls, the polling percentage was 58.4% — the highest turnout of the last 35 years in J&K parliamentary elections As the voting ended for the final phase on Monday, Jammu and Kashmir witnessed improvement in polling percentage from the recent Lok Sabha polls in the summer. The figure, however, still fell short of the final tally for the 2014 assembly polls. The voting to the third and final phase of elections in Jammu and Kashmir ended with a polling percentage of 65.6% after witnessing…

Last Ballot, Big Impact: J&K’s Final Voting Phase Today

October 1, 2024 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir assembly election 2024 live updates: Voting in third phase across 40 seats underway Jammu and Kashmir is voting in the third and final phase of polling today, with over 39 lakh voters exercising their franchise across 40 assembly seats – 24 in Jammu region and 16 in Kashmir. The final phase of polling, which began at 7 am and conclude by 7 pm in the Valley, will determine the future of 415 candidates. The Election Commission of India has set up 5,060 polling stations across Jammu and…

Amit Shah Condemns Kharge: ‘Distasteful Speech Shows Fear and Hate for Modi’

September 30, 2024 Editor

Political Tensions Escalate: Amit Shah Rebukes Kharge’s ‘Distasteful’ Comments Srinagar, Sept 30: Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah Monday said, the Congress President Mallikarjun Karge “has outperformer himself, his leaders, and his party in being absolutely distasteful and disgraceful in his speech.” Shah was reacting to Kharge’s Sunday speech in Jammu where after he was taken ill but resumed his speech, saying he won’t die before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is removed from power. Taking to his official X-handle, Shah termed Kharge’s speech a “bitter display of spite.” “He…

Kashmir’s Decade of Silence Ends: Hopes High for Representation After First Election in 10 Years

September 28, 2024 Editor

Kashmir hopes for a voice after first election in 10 years Nestled in the mountains of Indian-administered Kashmir, Shopian – once a hotbed of militancy – sees a steady stream of voters entering a polling booth. The former state of Jammu and Kashmir – now divided into two federally administered territories – is holding its first assembly election in a decade. The third and last phase of voting is on Tuesday and results will be declared on 8 October. Since the 1990s, an armed separatist insurgency against Indian rule in…

Mehbooba’s Revelation: BJP’s 3-Month Plea for Coalition

September 28, 2024 Editor

BJP ‘Begged For 3 Months’ To Form Coalition: Mehbooba Mufti Srinagar 27 Sep: In a fierce attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti accused the party of hypocrisy and political opportunism. Speaking at a campaign rally in Bahu in support of PDP candidate Virendra Singh Sonu, Mehbooba claimed that Ram Madhav, a senior BJP leader, made desperate attempts to form a coalition government with her party after the 2014 elections, reported news agency KNO. Revealing behind-the-scenes…

Kashmir Issue Takes Center Stage in Rashid’s Campaign, Vote Splits Could Aid BJP: Analysts

September 27, 2024 Editor

AIP is weaponizing its separatist narrative against NC, PDP, but analysts feel this sentimental call will be detrimental to Kashmir’s interests Sringar: Nearly two years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed to have resolved the Kashmir issue during a public meeting in the Anand district of Gujarat on October 10, 2022, the Kashmir valley, witnessing elections to local assembly after 10 years, is reverberating with the roars of resolving the same issue. At the centre of reinvigoration of the issue is Lok Sabha member Engineer Rashid, who has been lodged…

J&K Elections: Engineer Rashid Claims Political Conspiracy by Omar and Lone

September 24, 2024 Editor

Engineer Rashid claims Omar, Sajad Lone ganged up to defeat Awami Ittehad Party Lok Sabha MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid on Monday alleged that National Conference leader Omar Abdullah and People’s Conference chief Sajad Gani Lone had ganged up in a bid to defeat his Awami Ittehad Party candidates. The maverick politician, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, defeated both Abdullah and Lone in the Lok Sabha elections from Baramulla earlier this year. “Just a few days ago, Omar sahib was branding everyone, including Sajad Lone and Altaf Bukhari’s Apni Party, as…

Campaigning Closes for Phase II: Omar Abdullah and BJP Chief Raina Among Key Contenders

September 24, 2024 Editor

Campaigning Closes for Phase 2: Omar Abdullah and BJP Chief Raina Among Key Contenders

High-octane campaigning for Phase 2 ends in J&K The poll campaigning for the second phase of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir concluded on Monday as leaders tried to woo voters of 26 Assembly constituencies spread across six districts of the UT. According to an official spokesperson, over 25.78 lakh voters would decide the fate of 239 candidates on Wednesday. The second phase of the elections would cover 26 Assembly segments, including Ganderbal, Srinagar and Budgam in the Kashmir division, Reasi, Rajouri and Poonch in the Jammu division. There are…

Karra Slams BJP: Accuses Party of Treating J&K as an Experimental Lab

September 23, 2024 Editor

While transformation is indeed happening in J&K, it’s not what the BJP claims. Instead, the region has been transformed from a thriving tourism hub to an experiment laboratory. —Tariq Hameed Karra, J&K Congress Chief J&K Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra on Sunday said that BJP has transformed Jammu and Kashmir from a thriving tourism hub to an experiment laboratory. According to a statement on Sunday, Karra strongly reacted to the claims made by BJP leaders regarding transformation in Jammu and Kashmir. “While transformation is indeed happening in J&K, it’s not…