May 15, 2022 8:54 am
MY Tarigami said the Gupkar Alliance leaders held an “unscheduled meeting” Saturday after a delegation of the Kashmiri Pandit community members expressed their desire to meet them.
February 27, 2022 8:01 am
Calling the proposed changes to the constituencies unfortunate, Abdullah said: “Election is the basis of democracy and the very first thing for that is the delimitation report."
December 09, 2021 7:05 pm
Headed by NC President Farooq Abdullah, PAGD is an alliance of several mainstream political parties -- including the NC, PDP, CPI(M) and Awami National Conference -- formed to seek the reversal of the abrogation of J&K's special status.
August 05, 2021 3:43 am
Calling the abrogation of special status as an unprecedented constitutional assault, the PAGD said what was done with J&K could be replicated in other states as well.
July 06, 2021 5:41 am
The statement comes a day before the Delimitation Commission is scheduled to visit J&K to interact with political parties, public representatives and state government officials on redrawing boundaries of existing Assembly seats.
July 01, 2021 7:44 am
Kapil Sibal writes: The Centre wants the world to believe that it is making serious efforts to restore democracy in J&K, but talk of delimitation might sour the dialogue even before it takes off.
June 27, 2021 8:28 am
More than a "change of heart," the refrain in Srinagar is that New Delhi’s move is shaped by political imperatives – from international to regional.
December 24, 2020 7:28 am
The Kashmir Division and Jammu Division comprise 10 DDCs each, and every DDC is divided into 14 territorial constituencies, elections for which were held over eight phases. For clear majority in a DDC, any party or alliance requires a minimum of eight seats.
December 24, 2020 7:56 am
Calling it a win for democracy, Ravi Shankar Prasad said the number of votes that the BJP gathered was more than the combined votes of the National Conference, PDP and Congress.
December 24, 2020 8:53 am
As such, politics will not be driven by Kashmir versus Delhi fighting for political power. Instead, it will be Jammu versus Kashmir for primacy in decision making or Poonch versus Pulwama for allocations; in other words, manageable demands.