A blamegame has erupted between two senior leaders of National Conference and PDP on past ties with the BJP. Senior NC leader Nasir Aslam Wani, who is political advisor to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, said had the PDP not supported the BJP in 2014, Articles 370 and 35A would not have been abrogated. PDP leader and MLA Waheed Para hit …
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has written to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, urging the reinstatement of government employees dismissed on terror charges over the past five years, following the abrogation of Article 370, which stripped the erstwhile state of its special status. The Peoples Democratic Party chief highlighted the "plight of families whose members have been arbitrarily …
The BJP-led Union government on Wednesday came under attack from parties in Jammu and Kashmir over the recent militant attacks in the Union Territory, with National Conference president Farooq Abdullah calling for resumption of dialogue with Pakistan “to stop the violence”. Why are these security lapses taking place in the first place?” Another Jammu-based PDP leader Aditya Gupta said the …
Nitasha Kaul, a controversial ‘activist’ invited by the Congress government in Karnataka to speak at a ‘Constitution and National Unity’ conference, was deported to the United Kingdom after landing at Bengaluru airport. “It is the nature of the occupying Indian state that has compelled us to resort to violent methods of resistance.”’ — Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD May 6, 2020 …
