The newly-elected Jammu and Kashmir Assembly faced chaos on the first day after opposition member Waheed Parra of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) moved a resolution against the scrapping of Article 370. The erstwhile state lost its special status and was bifurcated into two union territories after the Narendra Modi-led Union government abrogated Article 370…
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 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 Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir would be held in September this year, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said on August 5, the fifth anniversary of abrogation of Article 370 that granted special status to the erstwhile state. Reddy, who is also the election in-charge of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jammu and…
