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Pawn or kingmaker? Voters will decide Engineer Rashid fate today | India News – Times of India

BARAMULLA/SOPORE: With J&K elections cutting to the chase, North Kashmir will determine if the "X-factor" label to Engineer Rashid was justified or his appeal fizzled out in the face of resurgence of National Conference and People's Conference (PC) in his stronghold.Voting on Tuesday will be key to who forms govt in the post-370 UT, with BJP counting on a fragmented verdict to cobble the numbers through minor players - which makes it consequential if Rashid could rebuff the rivals' frontal accusation that he was a "BJP proxy".Of the 40 seats in the final phase, 16 fall in Kashmir districts of Baramulla, Bandipora, and Kupwara.Rashid's caravan in the last week moved to the constituency that introduced him nationally as the sensation by delivering him Baramulla Lok Sabha seat from prison...

17Sep

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Politics in land of poets: All eyes on Dooru as Delhi watches closely | India News – Times of India

ANANTNAG: Often celebrated as the “Land of Poets”, the air in Dooru seems thick with the echoes of classical Persian and Kashmiri verses. Among the poets and storytellers, Saadat Hasan Manto had roots in this pretty town cradled by the towering Pir Panjal range in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.Dooru is currently drawing attention not for its rich literary history, but for politics, as J&K gears up for its first assembly elections in a decade.Among the ten candidates vying for the Dooru assembly constituency is AICC general secretary Ghulam Ahmad Mir, the nominee of the National Conference (NC)-Congress alliance.Mir, a two-time legislator, faces competition from PDP’s Mohammad Ashraf Malik and independents backed by the banned Jamaat-e-Islami and Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid’s Awami...

9Sep

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Sheikh Rashid’s party proxy of BJP, claims Mehbooba Mufti | India News – Times of India

ANANTNAG: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused jailed MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid's Awami Ittehad Party of being a proxy of the BJP, and warned the people of Jammu and Kashmir not to come under the influence of such parties. Her remarks came a day after PDP candidate from south Kashmir's Shopian assembly segment Yawar Shafi Banday was injured in an alleged attack by the workers of the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP), which is led by Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, in Balpora area of Shopian."Our candidate was going to his constituency, some workers associated with AIP assaulted them, even our candidate Yawar Banday was beaten and he is fighting for his life, his ribs broken, his condition is serious," Mehbooba claimed while addressing a press conference in Khanabal area of Anant...