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Video | National Conference-Congress Big Win, Independents And Smallers Parties Fail In J&K

The National Conference and the Congress on Tuesday won the Jammu and Kashmir election - the first in the former state in a decade - defying exit poll predictions of a hung Assembly.The alliance claimed 49 of the union territory's 90 elected legislature seats; five more will be nominated by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha under a contentious new rule.But it is the NC that has emerged, by a country mile, as the majority partner with 42 wins to the Congress' dismal six. The NC turned in a strong showing across the Kashmir region's 47 seats.Source link
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Jammu & Kashmir: 65.58% Polling In Final Phase, Akhnoor Records Highest Turnout, All Eyes On Oc

Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024: A voter turnout of 65.58 per cent was recorded in the third and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections on Tuesday, according to Election Commission data. Among the 40 constituencies, the highest voter turnout was recorded in Akhnoor at 76.28 per cent, while Sopore saw the lowest voter turnout of 41.44 percent. As polling began in the 40 Assembly segments across seven districts of Jammu and Kashmir, long queues were witnessed outside polling stations, as voters gathered to decide the fate of 415 candidates. A voter turnout of 65.48 per cent was recorded till 5 pm. More than 39.18 lakh eligible voters were eligible to cast ballots, some of whom voted for the first time in the Assembly elections post the abrogation of Article 370 in ...
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Mehbooba Mufti suspends poll campaign for a day after killing of Hezbollah leader, says “stand with people of Palestine, Lebanon”

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti addresses during an election rally ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, at Lalpora village of Tangmarg in north Kashmir, Friday (Sept. 27, 2024). | Photo Credit: PTI People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has decided to cancel her election campaign for Sunday (September 29, 2024) stating that she stands with “the people of Palestine and Lebanon in this hour of immense grief”.She announced this in the wake of the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon. “Cancelling my campaign tomorrow in solidarity with the martyrs of Lebanon and Gaza, especially Hassan Nasarullah. We stand with the people of Palestine and Lebanon in this hour of immense grief and...
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J&K: Protests In Budgam, Srinagar Over Hezbollah Chief Nasrallah’s Killing, Mehbooba Cancels Po

Protests erupted in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam and Srinagar on Saturday as people took to the streets to protest against the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. Meanwhile, former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti also cancelled her campaign scheduled for tomorrow to protest against Nasrallah's death. A video shared by news agency ANI showed scores of people, including women and children, participating in the protest march, holding photo frames of the slain leader and raising slogans in favour of Hezbollah and Palestine.  People also poured out on roads in Hassanabad, Rainawari, Saidakadal, Meer Behri, and Ashaibagh areas in Srinagar and chanted anti-Israel and anti-US slogans with black flags in their hands, news agn...
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Jammu & Kashmir | High stakes battle

It is the season of plenty in Kashmir. Shimmering gold fields of paddy, ripe for harvest, interspersed with neat rows of saffron corms. Apple orchards laden with fruit, along the highway to Pulwama district, 50 km from Srinagar. A tapestry ringed by impassive grey Himalayan massifs and a sparkling blue sky with tufts of pristine white clouds floating by. It is not just Nature that is holding out hope and promise in the Valley. The wind of democratic and political change is currently sweeping across Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), where assembly polls are being held after a hiatus of 10 long years. The election for the 90 assembly seats—43 in Jammu and 47 in Kashmir—is being held in three phases from September 18 to October 1. The results will be out on October 8, alongside those of Haryana. ...
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‘We Never Let BJP Enter J&K Despite…’: Abdullah On Mufti’s ‘Modi Should Be Thankful To Sheikh

National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Friday responded to People's Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti's recent remark saying that his party did not allow the Bharatiya Janata Party to enter Jammu and Kashmir despite being a part of the National Democratic Party in the 2000s. Mufti had asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be "thankful to Sheikh family". "I would like to tell Mehbooba Mufti that we were part of the NDA, however, we never let BJP enter Jammu and Kashmir. Despite being part of NDA, we did not let BJP win Jammu's Parliamentary seat," Omar Abdullah said. VIDEO | "I would like to tell Mehbooba Mufti that we were part of the NDA, however, we never let BJP enter Jammu and Kashmir. Despite being part of NDA, we did not let BJP win Jammu's Parliamentary seat,"...
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J-K Election, Phase 1: 24 Seats Up For Grabs In First Assembly Polls Since Art 370 Abrogation

J-K Election, Phase 1: The first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections is set to commence on Wednesday, September 18. This phase will see voting in 24 out of the 90 constituencies, covering both Kashmir and Jammu divisions. The outcome of this crucial phase will determine the fate of 219 candidates, as over 23.27 lakh voters, including 5.66 lakh young voters, head to the polls. This phase marks the first assembly elections in J&K since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, which ended the state’s special status and restructured it into two Union territories. The constituencies up for election in this phase include significant seats such as Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam, Anantnag, Pahalgam, and Ramban. In total, the first phase will cover 16 assembly constituencies in the...
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Contesting J&K polls to stop BJP from burying Article 370, Kashmir issue: PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Mehbooba Mufti, the president of People's Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said that her party is not contesting in the elections only for undertaking developmental works, but also to stop BJP from burying the Kashmir issue and Article 370. "It is a matter of shame for the BJP that has been saying the situation has improved, but they could not hold elections in J&K in the last 10 years.People are annoyed, they are suffocating. They want a government to be formed which can address their concerns and end their difficulties," Mufti told reporters.The PDP chief said, "We are contesting because the BJP wants to bury Kashmir issue and Article 370, and wants everyone to talk only about election". "But we are adamant that the resolution of Kashmir issue is very important," she added...
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‘PDP will play role of kingmaker after J&K polls’. Iltija Mufti gears up for her 1st political battle

Though the constituency is considered a bastion of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)—the party has never lost an assembly election there since 1996—the NC has also been gaining ground steadily.But Iltija isn’t deterred. “Aaapki MLA inshallah aapke saamne khadi hai (Inshallah your MLA is standing in front of you),” she told the women of Anantnag.ThePrint caught up with Iltija for a freewheeling interview on her political debut and her vision for Jammu & Kashmir as it gears up for its first election in a decade.Jammu & Kashmir will vote for a 90-member assembly in three phases starting 18 September and results will be announced on 4 October. It is also its first election since Article 370 was abrogated and the region’s “special status” was revoked five years ago.With no single pa...
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‘Have been dying in Tihar’: Engineer Rashid on Abdullah, Mufti’s ‘BJP proxy’ comment | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid called Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti's comment calling him a "BJP proxy" shameful, adding that if it would have been the case, why "would I be in jail."Calling himself a "victim" of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Sheikh Abdul Rashid said on Thursday, "I have been dying in Tihar Jail for last 5.5 years. I have been a victim of BJP. I don't want to talk about the suppression, let them have some grace."Mehbooba Mufti was criticising the BJP, when she called Rashid a BJP proxy-- "I want to ask the government, if you have again come up a proxy party, Engineer Rashid's party, when all your other proxy parties have failed, you have brought Engineer Rashid's party to the fore, and you are supporting them fully with funds and everything, then tell us clearly ...
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Always for talks, says Hurriyat after Rajnath mentions 2016 rebuff | India News – Times of India

SRINAGAR:Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat Conference reaffirmed support Monday for dialogue with the Centre, a day after defence minister Rajnath Singh told rallies in Jammu that the Centre had sent a parliamentary delegation in 2016 to initiate talks for peace in J&K but the Hurriyat leaders had “shut their doors on them”.At rallies in Ramban and Banihal on Sunday, Rajnath had further said he had spoken to then CM Mehbooba Mufti about how normality could be achieved, even agreeing to withdraw cases against minors.Rajnath was Union home minister then, and BJP and Mehbooba’s PDP ran a coalition govt in J&K.“We even brought (some opposition MPs) Sharad Yadav and other senior leaders to negotiate with Hurriyat but they closed the doors to the visiting delegation,” Rajnath had said. Sy...
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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...
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