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Hari Singh vs Sheikh Abdullah Holiday Row Rocks J&K Assembly

September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 Editor

NC-BJP Clash in J&K Assembly Over Hari Singh, Sheikh Abdullah Holidays By: News Desk | 22 September 2026 Srinagar: History returned to the floor of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, and it did not arrive quietly. A debate over government holidays marking the anniversaries of two of the most consequential figures in Jammu and Kashmir’s modern history, Maharaja Hari Singh and Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, triggered noisy scenes, competing slogans and eventually a walkout by BJP legislators. The immediate dispute began when National Conference MLA Abdul Majeed Larmi…

You can’t buy land in Himachal, Sikkim, so why target J&K? M Y Tarigami

August 10, 2018 Editor

‘The BJP wants to find an excuse to polarise people.’ ‘Whatever rights J&K has got from the Constitution of India, they want to snatch it.’ ‘By doing so, they are harming J&K as well as India.’ A Delhi-based NGO, We The Citizens, and a few individuals recently filed pleas in the Supreme Court challenging the Constitutional validity of Article 35A of the Constitution, which gives special rights and privileges to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. At the same time, several interlocutory petitions have been filed in support of Article 35A by…