PDP president Mehbooba Mufti criticized the Centre's decision to nominate five members to the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly after elections, calling it a blatant subversion of democratic principles and urging the elected government to challenge this undemocratic move
Majority of MLAs from BJP marshalled out after they tried to storm into the well of the house to demand the rollback of resolution passed on special status
There was a level playing field. Everyone was free. Nobody was under detention and were free to move about. But the results which came out of the local bodies and gram panchayat polls have made it clear that terrorism and separatism were defeated
Among the big Independent wins is Taranjit Singh defeating BJP's two-time MLA and former minister Sham Lal Choudhary in Suchetgarh in Jammu region by a slender margin of 11 votes.
Mufti was released on October 14 after being in detention from August 5 last year following the abrogation of the special status of the erstwhile state.
Trouble-torn Jammu & Kashmir is at the cusp of a significant political turn with the mainstream parties deciding to participate in the upcoming District Development Council (DDC) elections to be held in the Union Territory. This is the first poll exercise in the volatile region since the scrapping of Article 370 in August last year, […]
