Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party president and former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday accused the Modi government of wanting to plunder the land and resources of Jammu and Kashmir. She said that new land laws, domicile rules, and service conditions of government employees were all means to achieve this aim. Talking to reporters at […]
Says ‘laanat’ on political leaders if they are still after ‘chair’ Srinagar: Former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said that disunity among the region’s political parties in the past had made their voices weaker and New Delhi’s job easier. Speaking to party workers at the headquarters of the National Conference in Nawa-e-Subah complex […]
New Delhi: The Congress accused the government on Wednesday of playing the politics of obstinacy as it opposed the amendments to land laws allowing outsiders to own land in Jammu and Kashmir and termed the move as undemocratic. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said the move does not follow the elementary canons of participatory democracy as […]
Srinagar: A protest march organised by PDP against the new J&K land laws on Thursday was prevented by police in Srinagar by detaining several leaders and workers. In the morning, the PDP leaders and workers assembled outside the party headquarters at Poloview to take out a march against the land laws which allows outsiders to […]
Jammu: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and National Panthers Party (NPP) on Wednesday staged separate protests here, demanding repeal of the new land laws which have paved the way for people from outside to buy land in Jammu and Kashmir. Led by General Secretary and former legislator Surinder Choudhary, PDP activists holding the tricolour as well […]
Srinagar: Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Ghulam Ahmad Mir on Wednesday said his party rejects the new land laws notified by the Centre for Jammu and Kashmir. “The new land law is another gift of BJP to the people of J&K. The Congress party rejects the new land laws and vows to fight for protection […]
On request of army, govt may declare any area ‘strategic’ Srinagar: The Government of India has paved the way for people from outside Jammu and Kashmir to buy land by amending several laws, over a year after the nullification of Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution. In a gazette notification, the Centre has omitted […]
Srinagar: People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration on Tuesday strongly condemned repeal of J&K Land Laws, stripping the permanent residents of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir of exclusive right to acquire and hold immovable property and granting such rights to non-state subjects. Terming the MHA order as a huge betrayal, the alliance said that this is a […]
Gupkar Declaration is anti-BJP not anti-national: Farooq Srinagar: The People’s Alliance of Gupkar Declaration on Saturday nominated National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah as the president, and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti as the vice-president of the amalgam of major regional parties of Jammu and Kashmir. The newly-floated alliance also nominated CPIM leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami […]
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday accused PDP president Mehbooba Mufti of “disrespecting” the Indian flag and asserted that the revocation of Article 370 was done constitutionally and that it will not be restored. Her comments that she will not hold the tricolour till the Kashmiri flag is restored is “downright denunciation” of the national […]