Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference candidate Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi on Sunday wrote to the Election Commission about the alleged police crackdown and pointed out “police summoning and detention of hundreds of their workers” in the past 24 hours in the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, where polls will be held on May 13. I am deeply …
Just two days ahead of the Srinagar Lok Sabha election, J&K’s two regional parties, the Peoples Democratic Party and the National Conference, on Saturday accused the administration of “ bias” and “unjust crackdown on party activists”. “Sad to see police arresting and unlawfully detaining polling agents of the J&K Peoples Democratic Party in the central Kashmir parliament constituency,” Mr. Parra …
The Srinagar Lok Sabha seat will vote on May 13 amid a poll fever in the once ‘boycott capital’ of Jammu & Kashmir, which saw less than 14% voting in 2019. The NC’s Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi and the PDP’s Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra emerged as the main voices to represent their respective political parties’ ideological opposition to the BJP’s move to …
The J&K High Court has allowed Peoples Democratic Party leader Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, who was arrested in 2021 with charges framed under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, to take oath as a District Development Council member in south Kashmir’s Pulwama. “The court deems it appropriate to observe that if there is no legal restriction or prohibition envisaged under the Panchayat Raj …
The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday arrested Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP's youth wing president, Waheed Parra, in connection with a terror case involving Hizbul Mujahideen commander Naveed Babu and suspended DSP Davinder Singh. Waheed Parra has been arrested under the Unlawful Activities Act or UAPA for allegedly supporting Hizbul Mujahideen and for his alleged 2018-19 links with terror accused Irfan Shafi …