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Public Outrage and Substance Abuse Crisis Drive Liquor Ban Movement in Kashmir

March 1, 2025 Editor

Three Bills and a Public Campaign: Why the Valley is Seeing Growing Calls for a Liquor Ban Srinagar 01 March 2025: Ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly’s Budget Session starting on March 3, calls for a liquor ban have been growing stronger in the Union Territory. This movement is driven by concerns over rising drug addiction and social media posts showing apparently drunk tourists, which have added to the public’s worries. However, the debate is complex, as the region also benefits from rising revenues from excise and tourism. Bills…

J&K Political Parties Welcome High Court Ruling on Passport Denial for Militants’ Kin

February 14, 2025 Editor

Jammu And Kashmir: NC, PDP, PC Welcome High Court Ruling On Denial Of Passport To Militants’ Kin; Justice M.A. Chowdhary of the high court said that an individual’s fundamental rights cannot be curtailed based on family associations. Srinagar 14 Feb: Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir have welcomed the verdict of the High Court of J&K and Ladakh that a person cannot be denied a passport based solely on a family member’s involvement in militancy. The verdict, pronounced on Tuesday, came in response to a petition filed by Mohammad Amir…

NC Leader Proposes Alcohol Ban in Kashmir: Public Support Grows

February 13, 2025 Editor

NC leader moves bill demanding ban on drinking alcohol in Kashmir and other Muslim majority areas; Proposed alcohol ban in Kashmir gains widespread public support National Conference (NC) legislator Ahsan Pardesi has submitted a private member bill in the Assembly, seeking a ban on alcohol in Kashmir and other Muslim-majority areas of Jammu Kashmir. According to news agency JKNS, Pardesi stated that the bill aims to protect the region’s cultural and religious values, arguing that alcohol consumption contradicts Kashmir’s traditional Sufi-Reshi ethos. “The unrestricted sale of alcohol undermines our religious…

BJP leaders in J&K prefer to contest local bodies’ polls as independents

August 20, 2023 Editor

BJP leaders don’t want to contest on party symbol J&K BJP leaders are keen that the panchayat and local bodies’ elections in J&K are not fought on party symbol as they feel that it could help them make gains in Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley and they say they could get more votes as Independent candidates. However, the PDP and NC, which had boycotted the panchayat and civic elections in 2018, want the polls to be held on party lines. The last panchayat elections in J&K were also held on non-party lines.…

BJP’s decline continues in Kashmir and Jammu: Rattan Lal

August 13, 2023 Editor

Rattan Lal Gupta Provincial President Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) has asserted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scattered is just like playing cards in Kashmir Valley while it has already lost its political space in Jammu Province too. It would be more appropriate to state that as of today BJP has lost its political ground and relevance across the entire Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory due to its anti people policies, he added. The senior NC leader stated this while addressing a meeting of party’s functionaries at…

NC, PDP reject Domicile Law, move aimed at changing J&K’s demography

June 27, 2020June 27, 2020 Editor

The National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday rejected the J&K Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) Order, 2020, and the J&K Grant of Domicile Certificate ( Procedure) Rules 2020, saying “it was aimed at changing the demography of the erstwhile State of J&K”. An NC spokesman said the amended domicile law was made in exercise of power under the J&K Reorganization Act 2019, “which stands challenged in the number of petitions before the Supreme Court”. “With the constitutional validity of the Act impugned and the petitions under the consideration of…

NC, PDP of creating hysteria in the valley, any decision on Art 35A will be for JK’s betterment: Ram Madhav

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Editor

Any decision taken by the Central government or court on Article 35A would be for the betterment of Jammu and Kashmir and “the issue was currently raked up with selfish motives,” BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav said in Srinagar on Wednesday. The National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) “were creating hysteria in Kashmir at a time when the stage is set for Assembly polls,” he said. “She [PDP president Mehbooba Mufti] is using such language like ‘barood seay kehlan [playing with explosives] was to keep herself…

Method adopted to extend constitutional amendments highly objectionable, NC, PDP mulling moving court

March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 Editor

The National Conference and the PDP said Friday that they were mulling moving court against the Centre’s decision to extend the 77th and 103rd Amendments of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir in the absence of an elected government in the state. The reactions come after the Union government on Thursday gave its nod to the promulgation of an ordinance for giving reservation benefits to SCs and STs in Jammu and Kashmir by amending a clause of the contentious Article 370, which gives special status to the state. “It…

NC, AIP, traders protest SAC move on J&K Bank, BJP welcomes decision

November 27, 2018 Editor

A day after the Kashmir Economic Alliance threatened to launch an agitation against the decision to turn J&K Bank into a public sector undertaking (PSU), the National Conference (NC) and Awami Ittehad Party protested the move on Monday. The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries also extended support to the alliance seeking a rollback of the decision. The NC workers held a sit-in outside the J&K Bank headquarters demanding immediate rollback of the decision of the State Administrative Council (SAC). Addressing NC workers, provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani said the…

NC, PDP taught a lesson, Satisfied with 4% voter turnout: Ram Madhav

October 25, 2018 Editor

Training guns at National Conference (NC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for criticizing low voter turnout in recently held municipal polls, BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav on Wednesday said many leaders from these parties were elected as Members of Parliament with fewer votes. “We are very happy and satisfied. Our candidates have won in the valley. Even 4 percent votes matters for us,” Madhav said while felicitating the winning candidates of party at a function here. He accused NC and PDP of threatening people and held them responsible for low…