Mehbooba took to Twitter to claim that she has been detained. Police did not comment on the alleged detention of the former Chief Minister so far.
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday that authorities prevented her from leaving her residence in Srinagar as she wanted to meet the families evicted from forest land in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Mehbooba took to Twitter to claim that she has been detained. Police did not comment on the alleged detention of the former Chief Minister so far.
“Illegal detention has become GOIs favourite go to method for muzzling any form of Opposition. I’ve been detained once again because I wanted to visit Budgam where hundreds of families were evicted from their homes,” Mehbooba tweeted.
“GOI (Government of India) wants to continue inflicting oppression & zulm (injustice) on the people of J-K without any questions asked,” she added.
Three employees injured, in a Gas Cylinder Blast at Registration section of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology located at Shalimar, Srinagar.
Injured were shifted to SMHS Hospital for treatment. (KT)
Srinagar: PDP Chief and former Chief Minister of ertswhile state of J&K, Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar on Monday filed a petition in a local court in Srinagar seeking dismissal of the defamation suit filed way back in the year 2004.
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The formation of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) has not only brought together the central parties of Kashmir, but also paved the way for cordial relations between all the leaders.
Officials told that Mehbooba Mufti and Ali Muhammad Sagar on Monday filed a defamation suit before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in Srinagar.
It may be recalled that Sagar had filed a defamation suit against Mehbooba in 2004, Lok Sabha elections and had accused Mehbooba Mufti of rigging the Lok Sabha elections and indulging in booth capturing. Sagar was then the NC vice president Omar Abdullah’s chief polling agent.
However, Mehbooba Mufti had approached the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to dismiss the case. The court had rejected the petition of Mehbooba Mufti and had directed the trial court to take further action.
On Monday, the lawyers of both the parties filed a joint petition in the Srinagar court seeking dismissal of the case. Advocate Shabir Ahmed Khan and Advocate Rafiq Ahmed represented the Ali Muhammad Sagar appeared while Advocate Jawad Rishi represented Mehbooba Mufti.
Advocate Ahmed said that the two leaders have decided to work together in the interest of the people.
“Now that they are working together, there is no need to move forward on this issue,” he said.
He further said that Mehbooba Mufti and Ali Muhammad Sagar have decided to withdraw the case to resolve all differences. (KDC)
‘More than 10 former ministers and ex-legislators of BJP illegally occupants Government quarters’
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir BJP President Ravinder Raina and former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta are been named as illegal occupants of government accommodation in the list submitted in the High Court by the administration.
According to the affidavit furnished by the deputy director Estates department, family of one former CM GM Shah, seventeen former ministers/legislators including Ch Lal Singh,former Deputy CM Kavinder Gupta, former ministers, Bali Bhagat, Sunil Sharma, Sat Sharma,Ravinder Raina (BJP) former MLA GM Saroori (Congress), Mohd Shafi Uri (NC), Vikar Rasool Wani (CONG), Shakti Raj Parihar, Neelam Langeh,Daleep Singh Parihar, RS Pathania,Rajesh Gupta,Thakur Randhir Singh were still residing in the estates accommodation till September 2, 2020.
Six other MLC’s and 10 political persons too were occupying the govt accommodation,the affidavit stated.
Leaders from other political parties including National Conference, PDP, Congress, Apni Party, Peoples Conference and Panthers Party also figure in the list.
According to the estates’ department, the family of late G.M. Shah (former chief minister), Choudhary Lal Singh (former minister), G.M. Saroori (former minister), Muhammad Shafi Uri (former MLA), Vikar Rasool Wani (former MLA), Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar (former MLA), Zafar Iqbal Manhas (former MLC), Prof. Bhim Singh (former MLC, sub-judice), Ravinder Sharma (former MLC, sub-judice), Tariq Ahmed Keen (politician), Muhammad Sultan Mandoo (politician), Wazira Begum (district president, Congress), Shilpi Verma (politician), Hasina(politician), Shafiq Mir (chairman, Panchyat Conference), and Manohar Lal (general secretary, BJP) are residing in government quarters at Jammu “unauthorisedly”.
Those availing government/private accommodation at Sriangar are: Hakim Muhammad Yasin (former minister), Ghulam Nabi Lone (former minister), Syed Farooq Andrabi (former minister), Zahoor Ahmed Mir (former minister), Muhammad Khalil Bandh (former minister), Nazir Ahmed Khan (former deputy speaker), late M.S. Pandit Puri (former MLA), Aijaz Ahmed Mir (former MLA), Ali Muhammad Dar (former MLC), Bashir Ahmed Dar (former MLA), Mustaq Ahmad Shah (former MLA), Showkat Hussain Ganie (former MLC), Mohd Altaf Wani (former MLA), Dr Bashir Ahmed Veeri (former MLC), Vikram Randhawa (former MLC), Haji Abdul Rashid (former MLA), Yasir Reshi (former MLC), Abdul Rahim Rather (former MLA), Mohd Yousuf Bhat (former MLA), Muhammad Amin Bhat (former MLA), Shamima Firdous (former MLA), Muhammad Abbas (former MLA), Raja Manzoor (former MLA) Abdul Rahim Rather (former minister), Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan (former minister), Mustaq Ahmed Tantray (political activist), Reyaz Ahmed Mir (political activist), Nazir Ahmad Malik (political activist), Zahid Hussain Jan (political activist), S.S. Chani (political activist), Parveen Lone (political activist), Maqsood Indrabi (political activist), Muhammad Yousaf (political activist), G.M. Sheikh (political activist), Abdul Gani Vakil( former minister), Bashir Ahmed Mir (corporator, Srinagar Municipal Corporation), Sonaullah Lone (political activist), Nasir Khan( former MLC), Nizam-ud-Din Bhat (former MLA), Rafi Ahmed Mir (former MLA), Shoaib Ahmed Lone (former MLA), and Syed Muhammad Rafiq Shah (former MLC). (PTK)
Bandipora: Amidst fourth phase of DDC polls in J&K, residents of Malanga village in Aloosa block of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district hit the polling station in large numbers to cast ballots and appealed Government to ensure proper road connectivity in the village so that no patient will be brought to hospitals on shoulders onwards.
Locals while speaking with KNS correspndent appealed Government to ensure better road connectivity and best healthcare facilities in the area. They said the village is a remote area of the district so been abandoned by the Governmen always.
“We have been deprived from basic facilities so far. If we csme today amid chill to vote, we demand Government to ensure road connectivity and best healhcare services in the area”, an elderly resident said.
He said due to rough roads, villagers have no option left but to carry patients on their shoulders to medical facilities. “We are carrying patients on our shoulders to hospital due to bad roads. Often few patients give up their lives as they we couldn’t brought them to health centers on time”, he added.
“Besides road connectivity, the village lacks even basic facilities and Government is paying no attention towards our genuine grieviances”, another local said.
However long queues were seen on Malangam polling centre where men and women were waiting of their turn who were demanded adequate facilities in the village. (KNS)
Srinagar: Apni Party President and former minister Syed Altaf Bukhari on Monday reiterated that restoration of statehood, protection of land and job rights and to ensure other developmental works at grassroots level are party’s core agenda and said there is no room for emotional politics in the party.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of party convention in central Kashmir’s Chadoora, Bukhari said that JKAP is doing politics of truth and legitimacy. “JKAP believes in politics of truth. There is no room for politics of deceit and exploitation”, he said.
He said that party’s core agenda is to fight for restoration of statehood to J&K, protecting land and job rights to local domicile and ensuring other developmental works at grassroots level in Jammu and Kashmir.
“JKAP doesn’t believe in politics of exploitation and emotions. We believe in politics of truth, reality and people-friendly”, he told reporters. Bukhari maintained that JKAP will try to restore the respectability of people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Without naming signatories of People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), the JKAP President said that they (PAGD) should introspect about what they did in past with people of J&K for the sake of power and now naming us “B team” of BJP will not deter us from doing “emotion-free” politics.
“They have nothing adverse to say against us as we are not involved in scams and misappropriations. That is why they are naming us B-team of BJP etc etc”, Bukhari said and added, “It is people who will decide who is A-team and B-team”.
Hitting hard to NC, Bukhari said that it was Late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah who accorded with Congress in 1975 for the sake of power. Further it remained part of NDA Government led by Late Vajpayee Ji. So history cannot be reversed by their rhetoric. They remained “B-teams” in all these years to remain in power corridors. (KNS)
Jammu: Senior BJP leader Shahnawz Hussain today said that DDC election for them means election for development minus dynasty politics, corruption free J&K.
“This is DDC election. This is a three tier system. For us D for Development, D for Dynasty free J&K and C for Corruption free J&K. our focus is on it. Gupkar Gang and others try to raise other issues in this election but we are focussed on meaning of three Ds for us,” he said during a presser in Jammu.
He said BJP is in heart of Jammu and now people of Kashmir have also embraced BJP in a big way.
“Yesterday I had a big rally in the area of second in command of Hizbul Mujahideen Amir Khan. People told me that they are getting relief due to to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In India four times Abdullah’s have been Chief Minister and Mufti’s two times only,
He added that he has been entrusted campaigning job in J&K particularly valley.
“Tommorow I am leaving for Doda three day visit of Jammu. In District Development Council (DDC) elections the parties who fight against us run away from word Development. In North those who are against us are called MahaGadbandan and in J&K it is Gupkar Gang. rest Congres is nowhere. It is BJP versus all. In Hyderabad we added 12.5 lakh members. BJP is becoming powerful everywhere.” (KNS)
Anantnag: Suresh Raina: Former Indian Cricketer Suresh Raina says children of Kashmir need facilities where they can express themselves.
Talking to KNS duirng trials of young players for his accademy in Anantnag Distrct of South Kashmir, he said, “I have come here for talent hunt along with Abid Nabi. Lot of work need to be done here. He has played for Ranji trophy and has been with JKCA. children here are talented. We need to give them the facilities where they can express themselves. So this is not just a talent hunt.”
“They are very promising. We need to nurture their talent. For that we need to come here again and again. We need to show them what cricket is all about.”
He has a message for the children, ” I just want to give them what I have done in the past. Children have very less facilities here .I have also come from small place and reached this far .I am in touch with Govt . I want to give them a platform where they can really get the attachment for Cricket. My endeavour is to hone their talent.
Earlier these children have not earlier got facilities.”
Suresh Raina Cricket Academy in collaboration with Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council has started Conducting trail events from Dooru area of Anantnag .
Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council on Tuesday entered into Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with cricketer Suresh Raina’s Cricket Academy to nurture budding talent across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
A Government Spokesperson recently said: To tap immense sports potential and to realise vision of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha of making J&K a Centre of Sporting Excellence, J&K Sports Council entered into a MoU with Suresh Raina Cricket Academy to develop budding cricketers to national and international level.”(KNS)
Srinagar: Accusing the National Conference and PDP of “open looting of the resources of Jammu and Kashmir through dynasty”, National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party Tarun Chugh said that the time of dynastic rule in Jammu and Kashmir is over.
Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Tarun Chugh said that the BJP’s growing popularity in Kashmir and Jammu makes the “Gupkar Gang” feel unworthy. Chugh asked Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti to campaign for the withdrawal of slave Kashmir from Pakistan, rather than support talking to China, Pakistan.
Chugh said that this was the first time that the District Development Council (DDC) elections were being held in Jammu and Kashmir and i am happy to see that people are coming in large numbers to vote for the candidates.
Apart from cities, towns, villagers living in border areas also came out in large numbers to cast their votes. “It is a sign that the time of dynastic politics is over in Jammu and Kashmir. The dynastic leaders, who fought against each other till yesterday, were staunch rivals, today have united against the BJP. This is because they feel disqualified from the growing popularity of the BJP.
The BJP is rising like a storm in Jammu and Kashmir. BJP is reaching every village and district. He said that if one compares the 1960 picture of Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad with Jammu and Srinagar, the difference is very big and clear. “See how Mumbai has become a city of dreams for everyone. Bangalore is today a technology hub and Hyderabad is a place where dreams come true.
Talking about the capital of the country, Delhi is a metropolitan city where life goes on with great speed. Now the question is why Srinagar and Jammu stay away from development. Now, democracy is flourishing in Jammu and Kashmir. Chugh said that Srinagar and Jammu would be taken to new heights. In the year 2030, Jammu and Kashmir should be compared with Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad. You will see the difference.”
He said that dynastic politics that promoted corruption and nepotism did not allow development in Jammu and Kashmir. The late Mufti Muhammad Saeed spoke against corruption, but he too never acted against big fish like the National Conference. BJP national general secretary appealed to NC President Dr. Farooq Abdullah and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti to stop talking about Pakistan infiltrating Leh or Pakistan and promoting terrorism and separatism in Kashmir. They should now talk about how Pakistan-occupied Kashmir can be regained.
During the press conference, Chugh also took a dig at Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti, saying that she sits in New Delhi and tweets”. After all, why should the sons of others pick up guns?. (PTK)
