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Shiv Sena takes on BJP over introducing new land laws in J&K

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Shiv Sena on Monday took on the BJP over the recent decision of permitting people across the Country to buy land in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and said blaming former Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru or Congress for complicating the Kashmir issue was “propaganda” to some extent. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS) monitoring, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in his column written in party’s mouthpiece Saamna, while referring to the Union Government’s decision of permitting to buy land in J&K, said that five days ago,…

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BJP, RSS will sink in game of communal politics: Farooq Abdullah

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National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah today said the BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) would “sink” in the “game” of “communal politics” played by its leaders. “If anybody is playing communal politics today….the BJP is playing, RSS is playing. We have never played this game. They are playing and they will sink in this game,” Farooq told reporters on the sidelines of a function held here to pay tributes to JKNC founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on his 38th death anniversary. He said this when asked for comments over BJP…

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Scrap Article 370, introduce National Register for Citizens across the country: BJP president Amit Shah

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BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said his party will scrap Article 370 of the Constitution which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and introduce National Register for Citizens across the country after returning to power. Shah accused TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee of questioning the air strikes to “appease” her minority vote bank and wryly said she can do “Ilu Ilu” with Pakistan but if that country fire bullets on us we would respond with cannon balls. On the campaign trail in West Bengal’s Uluberia Lok Sabha seat in…

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Vote Modi to power if you want to destroy Muslims: BJP leader Ranjeet Bahadur Srivastava

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ranjeet Bahadur Srivastava has asked the voters to cast votes in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi if they wanted to ‘destroy’ Muslims, a media report said. The news gathering Asian News International (ANI) quoted the BJP leader as saying: “In the past five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made attempts to break the morale of the Muslims. Vote for PM Modi if you want to destroy the breed of Muslims. Despite Partition, the Muslim population is increasing in the country and soon…

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BJP, PDP ‘Spoiled’ poll atmosphere in Kashmir, resulted in low voter turnout, slams Congress

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The Congress on Thursday accused the Centre and the erstwhile BJP-PDP government in Jammu and Kashmir of “spoiling” the atmosphere in the state and held them responsible for the current situation there, where people are “afraid” to cast their vote. The Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, who hails from the state, said this was not the first time that voter turnout in municipal polls in the Kashmir Valley has been low compared to that in the Jammu region. Senior party leader Ambika Soni alleged that…

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Govt unlikely to accept ceasefire for Ramadan and Amarnath Yatra

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Officials in the home ministry, army, and Jammu and Kashmir police said an internal ceasefire is laden with risks, while the enforcement of a ceasefire with Pakistan is contingent on the latter’s behavior. The Mehbooba Mufti government on Thursday continued to push for a unilateral ceasefire with terror groups in the state and along the border with Pakistan during the holy month of Ramzan, but New Delhi, while it will consider the issue, is unlikely to accept the proposal, particularly with regard to internal operations, several officials familiar with the development…

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BJP, NC, Congress on same page over autonomy to Jammu Region

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Say move to ensure equitable development in all three regions of the state As discrimination with the Jammu region was the main issue for the majority of the delegations which met with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh during his two-day stay at the winter capital of the state, a consensus is emerging among political parties about having regional autonomy to ensure equitable and balanced development in all three regions of J&K. Not only the ruling BJP, but even opposition parties like the Congress, Panthers Party and the Kashmir-centric National Conference…

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BJP, Congress on same page in condemning Farooq’s remarks

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While the BJP today asked Jammu-based leaders of the National Conference (NC) to clear their stand on Farooq Abdullah’s recent statement in which he came to the defence of militants, the Congress termed former Chief Minister’s remarks as highly “objectionable.” “The NC president has crossed all limits and indulged in making statements which are well-planned and aimed at provoking the people of Kashmir. His utterances are the attempts to regain the lost faith and ground in Kashmir and the Jammu-based leaders should come clean on what has been said by…

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Soni questions coming together of PDP, BJP

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All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Ambika Soni today asked as to what had transpired between the BJP and the PDP in the three months post the death of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, leading to change of heart without having anything new in the public domain. The two parties need to explain to the people if there are any secret understandings, Soni said. Addressing a meeting of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) executive of Jammu province and the Mahila Congress Committee convention here, she asked…

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BJP, PDP to begin talks over government formation in March

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As quiet dialogue between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is going on for past two weeks, the leaders from both the parties are expecting that the government formation would not take long now. As quiet dialogue between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is going on for past two weeks, the leaders from both the parties are expecting that the government formation would not take long now. PDP leaders say government formation would take place in the first fortnight…

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