Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Polls: The Election Commission of India on September 5 issued a notification for the filing of nomination papers by candidates for the third and final phase of the upcoming assembly in Jammu and Kashmir. As many as 40 seats of the 90-member JK assembly will vote in the third phase of…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to give a boost to the Bharatiya Janta Party’s (BJP) campaign for Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls with three rallies next week. Modi is likely to address two rallies in Jammu and one in Kashmir, according to the reports. The PM is likely to visit the Union Territory (UT)…
The Election Commission of India on August 29 issued a notification for the filing of nomination papers by candidates for the second phase of the upcoming assembly in Jammu and Kashmir. As many as 26 seats will vote in the second phase of polling on September 25. The last date for filling nomination papers will…
The National Conference-Congress alliance in Jammu and Kashmir will collapse like a house of cards and face a humiliating defeat in the upcoming assembly elections, BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh has said. He also claimed the alliance had been rejected time and again by the people of Jammu and Kashmir. “Even in the last Lok…
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah said on Thursday that a pre-poll alliance with the Congress party is final on all 90 Jammu and Kashmir assembly seats. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is also expected to join this alliance. Abdullah’s comments came after he and his son, Omar Abdullah, met with Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge…
The Congress party has appointed Tariq Hameed Karra as the President of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee, hours after the Election Commission of India announced the schedule for assembly elections in the Union Territory. Along with him, Tara Chand and Raman Bhalla have also been appointed as the working presidents of the Jammu…
The Election Commission of India has asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration to transfer out officers posted in their home districts, a routine exercise it holds before conducting elections. The order assumes significance as it indicates that assembly polls in the Union Territory are imminent. The poll panel has issued similar directions to the chief…
