Who is the businessman turned Neta Altaf Bukhari? Altaf Bukhari is a businessman-turned-politician who joined the PDP in 2005. His family owns FIL Industries, which makes apple concentrates. Bukhari’s sons and his brother Syed Tariq take care of the business side. In addition to apple concentrates, the family has interests …
Read More »J&K: Apni Party thwarts the possibility of PAGD claiming DDC in Shopian
Over the past two days, the JK Apni Party, led by Altaf Bukhari, has claimed that three candidates, one independent and one from the National Conference and the People’s Democratic Party, who won the District Development Council elections from the electoral districts At Shopian, they have joined their ranks. With …
Read More »Gupkar Alliance Leadership Over BJP Reveals Limits Of Modi & Shah’s Jammu & Kashmir Strategy
However, the worrying part for the BJP is that while it may have made minor inroads into Kashmir, its dominance in Jammu appears to have weakened somewhat. In 2014, it won 25 of the 37 seats in Jammu, that is, more than two-thirds. But in DDC polls, he won 71 …
Read More »The first trends show the leadership of the Gupkar Alliance; Democracy assassinated, Mehbooba says as PDP leaders are detained
Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Governor Manoj Sinha congratulated voters and the electoral machinery of the Union Territory for the successful conduct of the first District Development Council (DDC) elections. “Strengthening the three tiers of the Panchayati Raj system in J&K, the DDC elections were held for the first time in …
Read More »‘I need to deal with bullying … boycotting the polls would have left the field wide open for BJP’: Mehbooba Mufti
Written by Bashaarat Masood | Srinagar | Updated: December 10, 2020 7:18:02 am Mehbooba Mufti said it was important for the PAGD to fight for the right to campaign in the DDC polls. BOYCOTT the District Development Council (DDC) polls, the first election exercise after the removal of J & …
Read More »Second phase of the Jammu and Kashmir DDC elections today
Voting for 43 constituencies in the second phase of the District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir will take place on Tuesday. The contest is between the recently launched People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration, the BJP, and the Apni Party raised by former Finance Minister Altaf Bukhari. …
Read More »Jammu Kashmir elections 2020: Polls for the first phase of the DDC elections in Jammu Kashmir begin | India News
JAMMU: Survey for the first phase of the first elections to the District Development Councils (DDC) in Jammu and Kashmir started on saturday morning. Forty-three of the 280 electoral districts of the Union Territory go to the polls in the first phase of DDC elections. Voting will end at 2 …
Read More »PAGD Candidates Unauthorized To Poll, Confined To ‘Safe Places’: Farooq Writes J&K Survey Panel
Written by Bashaarat Masood | Srinagar | Updated: November 21, 2020 8:57:09 pm File photo: Mehbooba Mufti, Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah at an all-party meeting on October 15 (Archive / ANI) Former Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and chairman of the newly formed People’s Alliance for the Gupkar …
Read More »Congress, which remains part of the Gupkar Alliance, will fight ‘together’ in the DDC elections: Farooq Abdullah
The Chairman of the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), Farooq Abdullah, claimed that Congress was largely part of his grouping, Farooq Abdullah said on Sunday that they would fight the DDC ballot box in Jammu and Kashmir “together. “, but there was no official news about it from …
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