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 »The results of the DDC survey are an emphatic rejection of the scrapping of J & K’s special status
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is busy making a virtue of necessity. All the “right” noises are being made about how the democratic process has been restored in the former degraded state of Jammu and Kashmir. As if the voter in that besieged part of the country spoke for …
Read More »Why did the government change its mind about the Roshi Law?
The Jammu and Kashmir government appears to have changed its mind on the controversial Roshni Act. In October, it had announced that it would begin reclaiming thousands of acres of land distributed under the law, shortly after the court struck down the legislation. But on December 4, the government filed …
Read More »What exactly is the ‘agrarian scam’ in which the Kashmiri parties are implicated?
As of November 23, the government of Jammu and Kashmir began publishing the names of beneficiaries under the now-discarded Jammu and Kashmir State Lands (Acquisition of Property from Occupants) Act, popularly known as the Roshni Act. It created a political storm in Kashmir. The first list named four leaders of …
Read More »Abdullahs Named On J&K Land Invasion List
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday released a voluminous list of beneficiaries of a two-decade-old law under which they allegedly obtained property rights to land they had illegally occupied, as well as invaders of vast tracts of state land, naming the former boss. the minister and member of Lok …
Read More »In other places he is part of the ‘Gupkar Gang’ but in Kargil, NC he is the ally of BJP
Written by Arun Sharma | Jammu | Updated: November 19, 2020 7:00:03 am The Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, Farooq Abdullah, and the Party’s Vice Chairman, Omar Abdullah (PTI) The BJP has declared the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) as a “gang” who wants “foreign …
Read More »The leader of the National Conference, Altaf Ahmad Wani, stopped flying to Dubai at the Delhi airport.
National Conference leader and former MLA Altaf Ahmad Wani was detained Thursday night for flying to Dubai from Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, PTI reported. Unidentified officials said The Hindu that the Ministry of the Interior had included 38 politicians from Jammu and Kashmir on a “no-fly list”. This …
Read More »If J&K had to go with Pak, it would have done it in 1947: Farooq Abdullah – cities
Addressing his party workers in Jammu for the first time in more than a year, the president of the National Conference, Farooq Abdullah, said on Friday that if Jammu and Kashmir had to go with Pakistan, it would have happened in 1947 and no one could have stopped him. His …
Read More »Center opens J&K for land sale, Gupkar parties call it a great betrayal
Written by Deeptiman Tiwary, Naveed Iqbal | New Delhi, Srinagar | Updated: October 28, 2020 7:43:23 am The President of the National Conference, Farooq Abdullah, the former CM Omar Abdullah and the President of the PDP, Mehbooba Mufti, address the press after the meeting of the Gupkar signatories (Express photo …
Read More »Omar, Mehbooba Smoke in the face of new laws when outsiders allowed to buy land in J&K
Srinagar: The People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration, an amalgam of several major parties in Jammu and Kashmir, including the National Conference and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday condemned amendments to land laws to allow people to from outside the Union Territory bought land there, and vowed to …
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