Jammu | Kashmir InFocus

October 12, 2018 No Responses

BJP surpassing other parties in dynastic politics

Rising to power after charging the Congress, National Conference, and Peoples Democratic Party with promoting dynastic legacy, the BJP is following the same path now. Whether it was as part of the PDP-BJP coalition government in the state or the...

October 8, 2018 No Responses

BJP faces tough fight from expelled party leaders, 6 lakh voters to decide fate of 1283 candidates

Bharatiya Janata Party candidates are pitted against expelled saffron party leaders in several wards of the Jammu Municipal Corporation and councils going to the polls tomorrow in first phase of the civic elections. As many as 28 expelled BJP activists...

October 6, 2018 No Responses

54% Independents candidates in Jammu making it tough for parties like BJP and Congress

With just three days left for the first phase of polling in the urban local bodies elections, a good number of Independents with a clean image are turning out to be a potential threat to candidates from the mainstream political...

October 5, 2018 No Responses

Poll battle rages for 238 wards across Jammu region

As the voting day for the first phase of the urban local bodies elections draws closer, political parties and Independents are making intense last-minute efforts to woo the electorate as 238 municipal wards of the Jammu division heads for a...

October 4, 2018 No Responses

NC instigating Kashmiris against migrants for their participation in local body polls: BJP

The Jammu and Kashmir BJP unit Wednesday accused the National Conference of instigating locals in the Valley against Kashmiri pandit migrants for their participation in local bodies polls. “Today, when some of them have gone to Kashmir to exercise their....

October 3, 2018 No Responses

PM Narendra Modi remains star campaigner for BJP candidates

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned for BJP candidates in Assembly and parliamentary elections, this time also, his photographs are being used by candidates in the local body polls to win the trust of voters. Deprived of local leadership, the...

September 25, 2018 No Responses

Seven dead in rain related incidents in Doda and Kathua

Seven persons, including five members of a family, were killed in different rain-related incidents in Doda and Kathua districts of the Jammu region during the past 24 hours. According to the police, five members of a family, including an infant,...

September 22, 2018 No Responses

Rajni Sethi, BJP mahila leader threatens suicide over ticket allotment

Within hours of the issuance of list of candidates for the urban local bodies elections, women activists of the BJP raised a banner of revolt on Friday, accusing the party leadership of “importing” candidates from other parties and selling party...

September 22, 2018 No Responses

BJP to disclose candidates identities after nominations

Although the list of party nominees for the Jammu region was released on Thursday, the BJP has decided not to make public the names of its candidates from the Kashmir valley before filing of the nomination papers. The step has...

September 20, 2018 No Responses

Govt planning to gift another HEP to GOI, JKSECC oppose joint venture on Ratle hydropower project

Jammu & Kashmir Socio-Economic Coordination Committee (JKSECC) Wednesday alleged that government is planning to give away another hydroelectric power project to some unknown central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), clandestinely. Addressing a presser here,...