Devender Rana has had an interesting journey in politics. He won the Nagrota assembly constituency in Jammu district in December 2014 on a National Conference ticket, the lone candidate from the party to score a victory in the region then. Brother of Jitendra Singh, Union MoS in the PMO, Rana was once a close associate … Read more
Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir has seen eight terror attacks in the last six months in which 10 security personnel and four terrorists were killed. Next-door Kishtwar reported the deaths of two Indian Army personnel on September 14 even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed voters of the region. As campaigning for the first … Read more
Last Updated: September 07, 2024, 07:00 IST These will be the first assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir as a union territory and without Ladakh as a part of it. (File image: News18) The three-phase assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will begin on September 18. The second and third rounds will be held on … Read more
Shagun Parihar is BJP’s only woman candidate in its first list of 15 candidates for J&K elections. (X/@ANI) Shagun Parihar, BJP’s lone woman candidate in Jammu and Kashmir so far, has vowed to focus on security, women’s empowerment, and employment in Kishtwar As Jammu and Kashmir gears up for Assembly elections after a decade, the … Read more
Last Updated: August 25, 2024, 23:22 IST Abdullah said the NC has prepared an extensive manifesto for the assembly polls which has been copied by other parties.(PTI file photo) The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was addressing NC workers in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, where activist Sayim Mustafa joined the party NC vice president … Read more
The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference has announced an alliance with the Congress for the upcoming J&K assembly elections. The seat-sharing arrangement is still being worked out but the decision is significant in many ways. National Conference president Farooq Abdullah told the media he was delighted that an alliance had decided to fight the polls. … Read more
Ram Madhav brought the BJP into power in Jammu & Kashmir by engineering the 2015 coalition with PDP (News18) Apart from J&K, Ram Madhav’s contribution in making BJP’s inroad in north eastern states has also been widely talked about among the party leaders and grassroot workers. Ram Madhav, the political mastermind who brought the Bharatiya … Read more
After delimitation, the total seats of J&K rose to 114 of which 24 seats fall under Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. (Getty) Sources told News18 that BJP remains “open” to post-poll alliance with “like-minded parties” and, for the elections, it will not go with any chief ministerial face The announcement of the Jammu & Kashmir assembly election — … Read more
