Last Updated: October 10, 2024, 14:45 IST National Conference Leader Omar Abdullah | Image/File Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was unanimously elected leader of the National Conference legislature party on Thursday. Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was unanimously elected leader of the National Conference legislature party on Thursday. Omar … Read more
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said the Centre should take a lesson from the decisive verdict of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls and “not meddle” in the affairs of the upcoming National Conference-Congress government. She congratulated the National Conference leadership on its victory and said her party would play the role of … Read more
The exit polls for the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have forecast a lead for the NC-Congress combine, at the same time predicting that PDP could play a critical role in government formation. But going by latest trends, one needs to take exit poll findings with a pinch of salt. In recent times, … Read more
Curated By: Shobhit Gupta Last Updated: October 04, 2024, 23:53 IST Union home minister Amit Shah and NC leader Omar Abdullah. (File) Omar Abdullah alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre has already conceded the defeat in the recently held elections and has asked the Chief Secretary to change transaction of business rules to … Read more
There is something different about the polling just completed in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Something that is bigger than and beyond the structural milestones like the first assembly poll after abrogation of Article 370, bifurcation of the earlier state, making of the UT, delimitation of constituencies and reserving nine seats for scheduled … Read more
Last Updated: October 01, 2024, 20:26 IST Election officials said the turnout figures could go slightly up as data was still being collected from some of the remote polling stations. (PTI file) The polling in the 40 Assembly segments across seven districts, including the winter capital Jammu, began at 7 am and concluded at 6 … Read more
Polling staff and security forces have reached their designated polling stations in six districts of J&K where voting for 26 seats in the second of the three-phase Assembly elections starts at 7 a.m. on Wednesday. The districts going to vote are Poonch, Rajouri, and Reasi districts in the Jammu division and Ganderbal, Srinagar and Budgam … Read more
NEW DELHI: Days after indicating readiness to hold assembly polls in J&K in the wake of successful Lok Sabha elections, Election Commission announced that it would accept “with immediate effect” any application seeking allotment of ‘common symbol’ from registered unrecognised parties in the UT.Unrecognised parties can apply for a ‘common poll symbol’ – on which … Read more
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (EC) is set to hold a comprehensive security review with the home ministry on March 8-9 to assess whether assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) can be held alongside the Lok Sabha polls. The meeting of the full commission and the secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, and … Read more
The apex court has set a deadline of September 2024 for the Election Commission to hold J&K polls. The big question is: When is the right window? Out of the 12 assembly elections held in J&K, half were held in the September-October or November-December window. In fact, since 1996, all J&K assembly polls have been … Read more
