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  • ‘Not God’s Decision’: Omar Abdullah Says Restoring Article 370 ‘Not Impossible’ |

    National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah, during his campaign in Budgam, where he is contesting elections, said that the restoration of Article 370 is not impossible as it was not a decision made by God. He noted that the Supreme Court, which gave the verdict against the article, could tomorrow rule in their favor. “The court has ruled in our favor three times before, and it can do so again. Nothing is impossible,” he stated.

    Omar further explained, “Three previous decisions made by the Supreme Court were changed by a five-judge bench, and in the future, a seven-judge bench could also reverse the decision.”

    He was responding to Home Minister Amit Shah, who recently said that Article 370 is now history and will never be part of India’s Constitution again.

    Targeting Shah, Abdullah added that the Home Minister should focus on the current situation and the rise of terrorism in Jammu, saying, “The Centre has been directly ruling Jammu & Kashmir for the last ten years. So, who is responsible for the situation in Jammu now?”

    Earlier, Farooq Abdullah stated, “We will fight for the restoration of Article 370 and will again approach the Supreme Court.” He added that the National Conference remains committed and will continue its fight for the restoration of Article 370.

  • BJP-Led Centre Trying To Create A Hindu-Muslim Divide With CAA: Mehbooba Mufti |

    SRINAGAR: Amid tension in the Kashmir Valley over the Centre’s decision to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has called it an anti-Muslim move that seeks to create another partition and masks the alleged weakness of the BJP to face the voters in the upcoming elections.

    The PDP president told reporters at the party office in Srinagar, ‘When we look at BJP’s report card of last ten years regarding unemployment, farmers, and the thought of taking the country backwards, they (BJP) are now trying their best to create a rift between Hindu’s and Muslims.”

    Mufti further said, ”They (BJP) want the people to come out on the roads, for this they have been doing things like demolishing mosques, looking for an idol in mosque. Recently, the man who saved the people stuck in a tunnel, his house was also demolished. They tried everything and they have realized that Muslims are not coming on the roads like they expected and now with CAA they just want to provoke people.”

    “Muslims need not to come on the roads as the case will be fought legally. People need to cast their vote after proper thinking,” said the former chief minister while urging the Muslims to understand the BJP’s alleged gameplan and not fall into its trap.

    “77 years after partition BJP is still wedded to the concept of two nation theory of Hindu Mahasabha. To further their agenda they have thus implemented CAA to create another partition among our people,” Mehbooba has posted on X.

    Meanwhile, National Conference vice-president and former chief minister Omar Abdullah said the BJP’s intention to use religion in the upcoming polls was obvious as the announcement was made a few days ahead of the election notification.

    “The BJP’s targets have always been the Muslims. In the CAA also, Muslims have been singled out. It is not the BJP’s new politics. They have been doing it. But I am surprised that the BJP, which claims to be winning 400 seats, which said that they cannot lose after Ram Mandir, perhaps feel their position is weak,” Omar told reporters.

    The Union Home Ministry on Monday notified rules for implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), days ahead of the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections schedule.

    Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on multiple occasions, said that CAA rules would be notified ahead of the Lok Sabha elections to be held in April-May.

    The CAA rules, introduced by the Narendra Modi government and passed by Parliament in 2019, aim to confer Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants – including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians – who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and arrived in India before December 31, 2014.

    Following the passage of the CAA by Parliament in December 2019 and its subsequent Presidential assent, significant protests erupted in various parts of the country.

    As per an official, the CAA law can be put into action with the issuance of MHA notification, allowing eligible individuals to obtain Indian citizenship.

    The implementation of the CAA, which has been delayed for over four years, necessitates the formulation of its associated rules.

    “The regulations are prepared, and an online portal is already set up for the entire process, which will be conducted digitally. Applicants will need to disclose the year of their entry into India without any travel documents. No additional documentation will be required from the applicants,” stated the official.

    On December 27, Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that the implementation of the CAA cannot be halted as it stands as the law of the land. He had also accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misleading the public regarding this matter.

    Speaking at a party meeting in Kolkata, Shah earlier emphasized that the BJP is committed to implementing the CAA. The TMC, led by Mamata Banerjee, has been opposing the CAA.

    The assurance of implementing the highly debated CAA was a significant electoral agenda for the BJP during the previous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in West Bengal.

    Leaders of the ruling party at the Centre view it as a credible factor contributing to the BJP’s ascent in the state

    .As per the manual of parliamentary procedures, the guidelines for any legislation should have been formulated within six months of receiving the presidential assent, or the government should have sought an extension from the Committees on Subordinate Legislation in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.Since 2020, the Ministry of Home Affairs has been regularly seeking extensions from the parliamentary committees to continue the process of framing the rules associated with the legislation.

    Over a hundred individuals lost their lives either during the protests or due to police action subsequent to the passage of the law in Parliament. During the past two years, over 30 district magistrates and home secretaries across nine states have been authorized with the ability to confer Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians arriving from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan under the Citizenship Act of 1955. As per the Ministry of Home Affairs annual report for 2021-22, between April 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021, a cumulative count of 1,414 individuals from non-Muslim minority communities originating from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan were granted Indian citizenship through registration or naturalization under the Citizenship Act, 1955.

    Under the Citizenship Act of 1955, Indian citizenship by registration or naturalization is granted to non-Muslim minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan in nine states such as Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Maharashtra. It’s notable that authorities in districts of Assam and West Bengal, both politically sensitive regions on this matter, have not been empowered with these citizenship-granting authorities thus far. 

  • Historical past can’t be buried or modified by means of casting off names: Farooq Abdullah 

    By means of PTI

    SRINAGAR: Historical past can’t be buried or modified by means of casting off the names of leaders who’ve no longer been part of the BJP, it’s going to “emerge” and “stay”, stated Nationwide Convention president Farooq Abdullah on Friday.

    “They’re casting off Nehru’s and Indira Gandhi’s title. They’re casting off the names of each and every chief who isn’t part of them, however historical past does no longer alternate,” Abdullah informed newshounds right here when requested that the Jammu and Kashmir management has dropped ‘Sher’ — the preferred title of his father and Nationwide Convention (NC) founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah from the Kashmir Global Conference Centre.

    The centre at the banks of Dal Lake used to be referred to as Sher-e-Kashmir Global Conference Centre.

    The Nationwide Convention president stated that the federal government has got rid of the historical past of the Mughal rule of 800 years from books, however “does it imply Mughals weren’t right here?”

    “When the folks cross to peer the Taj Mahal what is going to they are saying, who made it? When they are going to cross to the Purple Fortress, they are going to say who constructed it? When they are going to see Jamia Masjid, Humayun’s Tomb, Safdarjung Tomb, and Qutub Minar, what is going to they are saying? You can not bury historical past, historical past will emerge. We will be able to disappear, those folks will disappear like others, (however), historical past will stay,” he added.

    Responding to a poser at the Ultimate Court docket listening to a batch of petitions difficult the abrogation of Article 370, Abdullah stated everyone seems to be presenting their case which is there in entrance of the highest courtroom.

    “Previous additionally, two judgments were given by means of the Ultimate Court docket in favour of (Article) 370. All of us are assured that our communicate (arguments) ahead of them, all attorneys who’ve put the case ahead of them, that they’re going to have a look at it justly and provides justice to the folks of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh,” he stated.

    When requested to touch upon Democratic Innovative Azad Celebration leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s remarks that majority of Muslims in India and Jammu and Kashmir have transformed from Hinduism, the NC president stated the previous Congress chief is aware of the historical past.

    “I will not discuss for him, it’s for him to respond to what used to be the need (for the ones remarks),” he stated.

    The NC president stated the “historical past of our state and the folks may be very other.”

    “There’s no doubt there used to be a duration when there have been Hindus there after which all of them transformed to Buddhism when Buddhism used to be on the upward push. As soon as Buddhism disappeared, they reconverted themselves. That may be a lengthy historical past,” stated Abdulllah.

    “You will have to take into account (sufi saint) Ameer-e-Kabeer got here (to Kashmir), he introduced Islam and industry with it, in order that individuals who had been in reality down within the dumps may just do a little paintings with their arms and earn some truthful wages,” he added.

    The previous Union minister stated at the moment, they “divided” folks within the Hindu machine into the upper Brahmin and the decrease Brahmin.

    “The decrease Brahmin used to be no longer even allowed to return to the temple, he used to be downtrodden like lately we now have Dalits, precisely that came about to the decrease Brahmins. Once they noticed that Islam has come the place there is not any distinction between the wealthy and the deficient and everyone seems to be equivalent, there are amenities for all and there is not any department in folks, they grew to become to Islam,” stated Abdullah.

    “That’s the historical past. Islam improved, introduced in lot of fine such things as carpets, picket carving, whole Quran introduced in a justice machine which failed to exist, in order that justice machine made folks increasingly acutely aware of what Islam is and was Muslims, this is our historical past,” he added.

    To a query about Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha announcing that Hurriyat Convention chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq used to be loose to head anyplace he sought after to, the NC president stated that it used to be a complete lie.

    “All this can be a general lie, 100 in line with cent lie. He (Mirwaiz) can’t challenge out, to not Jamia Masjid. How lengthy they are going to inform lies? If he (Mirwaiz) is loose, then why have they put (safety) forces at his door and no one can input there?” Abdullah requested.

    “Can you interview Mirwaiz? If you’ll’t interview Mirwaiz, then is he loose? There you’re. It’s ahead of you, I would not have to position the case ahead of you, you already know already what the location is,” he added.

    SRINAGAR: Historical past can’t be buried or modified by means of casting off the names of leaders who’ve no longer been part of the BJP, it’s going to “emerge” and “stay”, stated Nationwide Convention president Farooq Abdullah on Friday.

    “They’re casting off Nehru’s and Indira Gandhi’s title. They’re casting off the names of each and every chief who isn’t part of them, however historical past does no longer alternate,” Abdullah informed newshounds right here when requested that the Jammu and Kashmir management has dropped ‘Sher’ — the preferred title of his father and Nationwide Convention (NC) founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah from the Kashmir Global Conference Centre.

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    The Nationwide Convention president stated that the federal government has got rid of the historical past of the Mughal rule of 800 years from books, however “does it imply Mughals weren’t right here?”

    “When the folks cross to peer the Taj Mahal what is going to they are saying, who made it? When they are going to cross to the Purple Fortress, they are going to say who constructed it? When they are going to see Jamia Masjid, Humayun’s Tomb, Safdarjung Tomb, and Qutub Minar, what is going to they are saying? You can not bury historical past, historical past will emerge. We will be able to disappear, those folks will disappear like others, (however), historical past will stay,” he added.

    Responding to a poser at the Ultimate Court docket listening to a batch of petitions difficult the abrogation of Article 370, Abdullah stated everyone seems to be presenting their case which is there in entrance of the highest courtroom.

    “Previous additionally, two judgments were given by means of the Ultimate Court docket in favour of (Article) 370. All of us are assured that our communicate (arguments) ahead of them, all attorneys who’ve put the case ahead of them, that they’re going to have a look at it justly and provides justice to the folks of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh,” he stated.

    When requested to touch upon Democratic Innovative Azad Celebration leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s remarks that majority of Muslims in India and Jammu and Kashmir have transformed from Hinduism, the NC president stated the previous Congress chief is aware of the historical past.

    “I will not discuss for him, it’s for him to respond to what used to be the need (for the ones remarks),” he stated.

    The NC president stated the “historical past of our state and the folks may be very other.”

    “There’s no doubt there used to be a duration when there have been Hindus there after which all of them transformed to Buddhism when Buddhism used to be on the upward push. As soon as Buddhism disappeared, they reconverted themselves. That may be a lengthy historical past,” stated Abdulllah.

    “You will have to take into account (sufi saint) Ameer-e-Kabeer got here (to Kashmir), he introduced Islam and industry with it, in order that individuals who had been in reality down within the dumps may just do a little paintings with their arms and earn some truthful wages,” he added.

    The previous Union minister stated at the moment, they “divided” folks within the Hindu machine into the upper Brahmin and the decrease Brahmin.

    “The decrease Brahmin used to be no longer even allowed to return to the temple, he used to be downtrodden like lately we now have Dalits, precisely that came about to the decrease Brahmins. Once they noticed that Islam has come the place there is not any distinction between the wealthy and the deficient and everyone seems to be equivalent, there are amenities for all and there is not any department in folks, they grew to become to Islam,” stated Abdullah.

    “That’s the historical past. Islam improved, introduced in lot of fine such things as carpets, picket carving, whole Quran introduced in a justice machine which failed to exist, in order that justice machine made folks increasingly acutely aware of what Islam is and was Muslims, this is our historical past,” he added.

    To a query about Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha announcing that Hurriyat Convention chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq used to be loose to head anyplace he sought after to, the NC president stated that it used to be a complete lie.

    “All this can be a general lie, 100 in line with cent lie. He (Mirwaiz) can’t challenge out, to not Jamia Masjid. How lengthy they are going to inform lies? If he (Mirwaiz) is loose, then why have they put (safety) forces at his door and no one can input there?” Abdullah requested.

    “Can you interview Mirwaiz? If you’ll’t interview Mirwaiz, then is he loose? There you’re. It’s ahead of you, I would not have to position the case ahead of you, you already know already what the location is,” he added.

  • J&Okay: Farooq Abdullah re-elected Nationwide Convention president

    Via PTI

    SRINAGAR: Farooq Abdullah used to be re-elected president of the Nationwide Convention (NC) for some other time period on Monday.

    The 85-year-old chief used to be unanimously elected the birthday party’s leader on the NC’s delegate consultation held close to the mausoleum of birthday party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah at Naseem Bagh right here. The day additionally marked the 117th start anniversary of Sheikh Abdullah.

    NC basic secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar stated simplest Abdullah’s nomination used to be gained until the closing date of submitting the nominations.

    “A complete of 183 proposals from Kashmir, 396 from Jammu and 25 proposals from Ladakh have been gained in toughen of Farooq Abdullah,” Sagar stated.

    The senior chief had not too long ago expressed a need to step down from the submit owing to his well being.

    The birthday party then set the presidential election procedure into movement and stated the brand new president could be elected on the birthday party’s delegate consultation.

    It stated the birthday party’s interior elections had already been concluded. The closing NC presidential elections happened 5 years in the past.

    ‘Let other folks come to a decision’

    Talking on the match, the octogenarian stated boycotting the panchayat polls in 2018 used to be “an enormous mistake” and the birthday party will have to contest each and every long term election in Jammu and Kashmir.

    “I need to inform the birthday party that boycotting the panchayat elections (in 2018) used to be an enormous mistake. Keep in mind this, we can no longer boycott any coming election. As an alternative (we can) contest and win them,” he stated. 

    Relating to his son Omar Abdullah’s announcement that he would no longer contest elections so long as Jammu and Kashmir remained a Union Territory, the senior Abdullah stated, “As birthday party president, I’m telling you (Omar Abdullah) that it’s a must to contest the election.”

    “As a result of if we need to struggle them, then all of us have to leap into the fray and contest elections,” he added.

    The previous Union minister stated the BJP “will do the rest, even make makes an attempt to shop for your loyalties, however God will fail all their designs.”

    Abdullah additionally warned the protection forces and the federal government to not intrude within the elections in Jammu and Kashmir and stated “let other folks come to a decision whom to vote for.”

    “Differently there will likely be one of these hurricane, which you’re going to no longer be capable to keep an eye on,” he stated.

    Abdullah additionally threatened to release an agitation in case one of these factor befell. “We will be able to be in a position to sacrifice our lives. Farooq Abdullah would be the first to begin an agitation over it,” he stated.

    SRINAGAR: Farooq Abdullah used to be re-elected president of the Nationwide Convention (NC) for some other time period on Monday.

    The 85-year-old chief used to be unanimously elected the birthday party’s leader on the NC’s delegate consultation held close to the mausoleum of birthday party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah at Naseem Bagh right here. The day additionally marked the 117th start anniversary of Sheikh Abdullah.

    NC basic secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar stated simplest Abdullah’s nomination used to be gained until the closing date of submitting the nominations.

    “A complete of 183 proposals from Kashmir, 396 from Jammu and 25 proposals from Ladakh have been gained in toughen of Farooq Abdullah,” Sagar stated.

    The senior chief had not too long ago expressed a need to step down from the submit owing to his well being.

    The birthday party then set the presidential election procedure into movement and stated the brand new president could be elected on the birthday party’s delegate consultation.

    It stated the birthday party’s interior elections had already been concluded. The closing NC presidential elections happened 5 years in the past.

    ‘Let other folks come to a decision’

    Talking on the match, the octogenarian stated boycotting the panchayat polls in 2018 used to be “an enormous mistake” and the birthday party will have to contest each and every long term election in Jammu and Kashmir.

    “I need to inform the birthday party that boycotting the panchayat elections (in 2018) used to be an enormous mistake. Keep in mind this, we can no longer boycott any coming election. As an alternative (we can) contest and win them,” he stated. 

    Relating to his son Omar Abdullah’s announcement that he would no longer contest elections so long as Jammu and Kashmir remained a Union Territory, the senior Abdullah stated, “As birthday party president, I’m telling you (Omar Abdullah) that it’s a must to contest the election.”

    “As a result of if we need to struggle them, then all of us have to leap into the fray and contest elections,” he added.

    The previous Union minister stated the BJP “will do the rest, even make makes an attempt to shop for your loyalties, however God will fail all their designs.”

    Abdullah additionally warned the protection forces and the federal government to not intrude within the elections in Jammu and Kashmir and stated “let other folks come to a decision whom to vote for.”

    “Differently there will likely be one of these hurricane, which you’re going to no longer be capable to keep an eye on,” he stated.

    Abdullah additionally threatened to release an agitation in case one of these factor befell. “We will be able to be in a position to sacrifice our lives. Farooq Abdullah would be the first to begin an agitation over it,” he stated.

  • Repair democratic rights of other people of J-Ok: NC on Charter Day

    Via PTI

    SRINAGAR: The Nationwide Convention on Saturday requested the federal government to revive the democratic rights of the folks of Jammu and Kashmir.

    Talking at the Charter Day, NC MPs Mohammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi stated other people of Jammu and Kashmir are being “denied” their rights enshrined within the Charter of India.

    The BJP-led central executive has disrespected the Charter whilst coping with Jammu and Kashmir, they alleged.

    “Had the prevailing ruling dispensation been so thoughtful of supremacy of the Charter, it do not have stored the erstwhile ancient state underneath the spell of lengthy undemocratic rule of outsourced forms,””they stated in a remark.

    SRINAGAR: The Nationwide Convention on Saturday requested the federal government to revive the democratic rights of the folks of Jammu and Kashmir.

    Talking at the Charter Day, NC MPs Mohammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi stated other people of Jammu and Kashmir are being “denied” their rights enshrined within the Charter of India.

    The BJP-led central executive has disrespected the Charter whilst coping with Jammu and Kashmir, they alleged.

    “Had the prevailing ruling dispensation been so thoughtful of supremacy of the Charter, it do not have stored the erstwhile ancient state underneath the spell of lengthy undemocratic rule of outsourced forms,””they stated in a remark.

  • Nationwide Convention’s combat in opposition to abrogation of Article 370 nonetheless on, says Farooq Abdullah

    By way of PTI

    SRINAGAR: Nationwide Convention (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Monday mentioned the celebration is preventing a prison and a political fight in opposition to the abrogation of Article 370 at multiple-levels as he advised folks to play their phase via registering as citizens for the upcoming state election.

    Abdullah’s remarks got here in Kokernag house of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district the place he made a short lived stopover whilst on method to Chenab valley for a four-day excursion.

    Interacting with celebration employees, he advised them to get eligible youths to get registered as citizens of their respective spaces.

    “The celebration is preventing a simply, democratic, prison, and political fight in opposition to the choices of August 5, 2019 at a number of phases,” Abdullah mentioned, relating to the revocation of Articles 370 and 35-A, and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two Union territories.

    The previous Union minister, alternatively, mentioned that the folks of J-Okay will even must play their function via registering and due to this fact popping out in huge numbers to vote, every time elections are held.

    “Our area is at crossroads, it calls for us to stay united as by no means sooner than. It additionally calls for our celebration males to coach and tell folks in regards to the designs of the anti-JK forces,” he added.

    SRINAGAR: Nationwide Convention (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Monday mentioned the celebration is preventing a prison and a political fight in opposition to the abrogation of Article 370 at multiple-levels as he advised folks to play their phase via registering as citizens for the upcoming state election.

    Abdullah’s remarks got here in Kokernag house of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district the place he made a short lived stopover whilst on method to Chenab valley for a four-day excursion.

    Interacting with celebration employees, he advised them to get eligible youths to get registered as citizens of their respective spaces.

    “The celebration is preventing a simply, democratic, prison, and political fight in opposition to the choices of August 5, 2019 at a number of phases,” Abdullah mentioned, relating to the revocation of Articles 370 and 35-A, and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two Union territories.

    The previous Union minister, alternatively, mentioned that the folks of J-Okay will even must play their function via registering and due to this fact popping out in huge numbers to vote, every time elections are held.

    “Our area is at crossroads, it calls for us to stay united as by no means sooner than. It additionally calls for our celebration males to coach and tell folks in regards to the designs of the anti-JK forces,” he added.

  • Was once Yasin Malik born with gun or did scenario compel him, asks Sajad Lone

    By way of PTI

    SRINAGAR: Other folks’s Convention chairman Sajad Lone on Saturday mentioned separatist chief Yasin Malik, convicted in an apprehension investment case, merits an even trial and demanded a probe into the alleged rigging within the 1987 meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

    He mentioned the 1987 rigging resulted within the eruption of militancy within the Kashmir Valley and requested Nationwide Convention president and previous leader minister Farooq Abdullah why Malik used to be ‘tortured’.

    “We don’t comply with his (Malik’s) ideology, however he’s a citizen of J-Ok and has a proper to an even trial. His viewpoint be no less than heard,” Lone advised newshounds.

    He mentioned Malik used to be a type of who had raised their voice towards the alleged rigging within the 1987 meeting elections.

    “Was once Yasin Malik born with a gun in hand or did the location compel him to take action? Maximum of the ones adolescence are both useless or are in prison. Why is the Central executive no longer lifting the veil from 1987? Why are they protecting it up?” Lone requested.

    He mentioned the compulsions of the Congress celebration not to inquire the alleged rigging can also be understood for the reason that celebration used to be part of it, however what’s preventing the BJP, which used to be no longer in energy then, from investigating the subject.

    “You (BJP) say you need to modify the entirety and that the entirety which has took place used to be fallacious,” Lone mentioned, including when the saffron celebration used to be getting even decades-old minor incidents investigated via the NIA, then why don’t you the 1987 rigging.

    He mentioned the 1987 rigging used to be the cause level for the eruption of militancy in Kashmir.

    “The truth is if 1987 is taken out of historical past, then most likely, not anything would have took place. No matter is occurring, adopted that best,” he mentioned.

    Malik, 56, head of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Entrance (JKLF), started a starvation strike in Tihar Prison after the federal government didn’t reply to his plea that he be allowed to bodily seem in a Jammu court docket listening to the Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case during which he’s an accused, officers mentioned on Saturday.

    He used to be arrested in early 2019 in reference to a 2017 terror-funding case registered via the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA).

    Malik had pleaded to blame within the case and used to be sentenced to existence imprisonment via a distinct NIA court docket in Delhi in Would possibly.

    Requested concerning the Other folks’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) — which his celebration hand over after being part of it for a while — Lone mentioned the amalgam used to be “useless”.

    “It’s not PAGD, however NC-PDP alliance. It’s an alliance of 2 events best to forestall another celebration from coming to energy. The PAGD used to be there, however now it isn’t. It’s useless,” he mentioned.

    READ HERE | Former J&Ok CM’s daughter Rubaiya Sayeed identifies Yasin Malik, 3 others as her abductors

    Requested about NC vp Omar Abdullah’s tweet about opposition cohesion within the nation, Lone mentioned “It kind of feels it used to be completed to delight the BJP and (stay) distance from the Congress.”

    Omar Abdullah had tweeted, “Opposition cohesion is a bit of of a chimera. In the end political events will do what is in their very own pastime & that is accurately. J&Ok noticed this after we had been left prime & dry via ‘buddies’ in 2019. It is time for @JKNC_ to do fits the celebration somewhat than waste time chasing ghosts.”

    Taking a dig at PDP president Mehbooba Mufti over her remarks that her sister Rubaiya Sayeed carried out her prison tasks via figuring out Malik as her abductor, Lone mentioned Mufti must prevent speaking about reconciliation.

    “When 1990 got here, two new phrases got here ‘militant’ and ‘mukhbir’ (informer). So, they have got performed the position of an informer. It’s their proper to be an informer and no person will prevent them, however, they must say it. They discuss reconciliation, talks with militants, (Hizbul Mujahideen leader) (Syed) Salahudin, and Pakistan. If you find yourself an informer, then don’t discuss these items as a result of an informer can not discuss reconciliation,” he mentioned.

    SRINAGAR: Other folks’s Convention chairman Sajad Lone on Saturday mentioned separatist chief Yasin Malik, convicted in an apprehension investment case, merits an even trial and demanded a probe into the alleged rigging within the 1987 meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

    He mentioned the 1987 rigging resulted within the eruption of militancy within the Kashmir Valley and requested Nationwide Convention president and previous leader minister Farooq Abdullah why Malik used to be ‘tortured’.

    “We don’t comply with his (Malik’s) ideology, however he’s a citizen of J-Ok and has a proper to an even trial. His viewpoint be no less than heard,” Lone advised newshounds.

    He mentioned Malik used to be a type of who had raised their voice towards the alleged rigging within the 1987 meeting elections.

    “Was once Yasin Malik born with a gun in hand or did the location compel him to take action? Maximum of the ones adolescence are both useless or are in prison. Why is the Central executive no longer lifting the veil from 1987? Why are they protecting it up?” Lone requested.

    He mentioned the compulsions of the Congress celebration not to inquire the alleged rigging can also be understood for the reason that celebration used to be part of it, however what’s preventing the BJP, which used to be no longer in energy then, from investigating the subject.

    “You (BJP) say you need to modify the entirety and that the entirety which has took place used to be fallacious,” Lone mentioned, including when the saffron celebration used to be getting even decades-old minor incidents investigated via the NIA, then why don’t you the 1987 rigging.

    He mentioned the 1987 rigging used to be the cause level for the eruption of militancy in Kashmir.

    “The truth is if 1987 is taken out of historical past, then most likely, not anything would have took place. No matter is occurring, adopted that best,” he mentioned.

    Malik, 56, head of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Entrance (JKLF), started a starvation strike in Tihar Prison after the federal government didn’t reply to his plea that he be allowed to bodily seem in a Jammu court docket listening to the Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case during which he’s an accused, officers mentioned on Saturday.

    He used to be arrested in early 2019 in reference to a 2017 terror-funding case registered via the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA).

    Malik had pleaded to blame within the case and used to be sentenced to existence imprisonment via a distinct NIA court docket in Delhi in Would possibly.

    Requested concerning the Other folks’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) — which his celebration hand over after being part of it for a while — Lone mentioned the amalgam used to be “useless”.

    “It’s not PAGD, however NC-PDP alliance. It’s an alliance of 2 events best to forestall another celebration from coming to energy. The PAGD used to be there, however now it isn’t. It’s useless,” he mentioned.

    READ HERE | Former J&Ok CM’s daughter Rubaiya Sayeed identifies Yasin Malik, 3 others as her abductors

    Requested about NC vp Omar Abdullah’s tweet about opposition cohesion within the nation, Lone mentioned “It kind of feels it used to be completed to delight the BJP and (stay) distance from the Congress.”

    Omar Abdullah had tweeted, “Opposition cohesion is a bit of of a chimera. In the end political events will do what is in their very own pastime & that is accurately. J&Ok noticed this after we had been left prime & dry via ‘buddies’ in 2019. It is time for @JKNC_ to do fits the celebration somewhat than waste time chasing ghosts.”

    Taking a dig at PDP president Mehbooba Mufti over her remarks that her sister Rubaiya Sayeed carried out her prison tasks via figuring out Malik as her abductor, Lone mentioned Mufti must prevent speaking about reconciliation.

    “When 1990 got here, two new phrases got here ‘militant’ and ‘mukhbir’ (informer). So, they have got performed the position of an informer. It’s their proper to be an informer and no person will prevent them, however, they must say it. They discuss reconciliation, talks with militants, (Hizbul Mujahideen leader) (Syed) Salahudin, and Pakistan. If you find yourself an informer, then don’t discuss these items as a result of an informer can not discuss reconciliation,” he mentioned.

  • J&Okay: NC, Other folks’s Convention take pleasure in blame recreation over delimitation panel file

    Via PTI

    SRINAGAR: The Nationwide Convention on Thursday mentioned it was once finding out the affect of the Delimitation Fee file on particular person meeting segments in Jammu and Kashmir however claimed the BJP and its proxies will likely be punished through the electorate each time elections are held within the union territory.

    Alternatively, the Other folks’s Convention led through Sajad Gani Lone, which is observed as an best friend of the BJP, accused the Nationwide Convention of offering sanctity to the delimitation workout after its MPs participated within the deliberations of the fee.

    Redrawing the electoral map of Jammu and Kashmir, a three-member Delimitation Fee on Thursday earmarked 47 meeting seats for Kashmir department and 43 for Jammu in its ultimate order submitted only a day ahead of its two-year tenure was once to finish.

    A gazette notification was once issued after the panel, headed through retired Ideally suited Courtroom pass judgement on Ranjana Prakash Desai, signed the overall order giving Jammu six further seats and yet one more to Kashmir.

    “We’ve got observed the overall suggestions of the Delimitation Fee. We’re finding out the results of those suggestions for particular person meeting constituencies. No quantity of gerrymandering will exchange the bottom fact which is that each time elections are held the voter will punish the BJP & its proxies for what they have got carried out to J&Okay during the last 4 years,” the Nationwide Convention tweeted.

    Alternatively, the Other folks’s Convention mentioned the delimitation file is a repeat of the previous and accused the NC of offering sanctity to the delimitation workout.

    “Similar conventional entities are calling the pictures in the back of the scenes. Kashmir has been discriminated in opposition to as previously. No exchange. Simplest level of disempowerment is larger,” the birthday party mentioned in a observation posted on Twitter.

    Over the past six many years, Kashmir’s percentage of meeting seats within the J-Okay meeting greater from 43 to 47, whilst Jammu’s percentage rose from 30 to 43. Who’s accountable for systematic disempowerment of Kashmiris from 1947, it requested.

    “Those that aided and abetted within the adventure from Jammu’s 30 to 37 are those who aided and abetted from 37 to 43. Want Kashmiri events had stayed away and no longer diluted the stigma related to a people-less procedure. Hope Kashmiris will take into account the events who related themselves with delimitation procedure which was once in crucial a device for disempowerment will all the time be in wonderment. How may a birthday party which related itself with the delimitation procedure be so audacious. They if truth be told had the nerve of filing one memorandum in Kashmir and a separate memorandum in Jammu. Sarcastically the memorandums have been contradictory,” the Other folks’s Convention mentioned “The Jammu one perceived to were copy-pasted from the Hindutva brigade,” it added.

    The birthday party mentioned it is going to opt for an RTI and search the video recordings of the conferences.

    “How those that began beating their chests out of doors the assembly halls have been bending their again backwards to assuage and please the participants of the delimitation fee. Monetary scams indulged in – all through the previous couple of many years can’t be squared off through covertly facilitating disempowerment of the Kashmiris. How silly we have been. We could not see in the course of the recreation plan. The raids. The EDs. It was once all a recreation. A trade-off. They once more bartered away the Kashmiris. The barterers are the similar. When will this transformation,” it mentioned.

    The birthday party mentioned it does no longer declare that the end result of the workout would were any other if there was once no participation of the Nationwide Convention. “However the procedure would no longer benefit from the sanctity that they revel in now.”

  • ‘The Kashmir Recordsdata’ a long way from fact: Omar Abdullah breaks silence on Vivek Agnihotri movie

    Through PTI

    SRINAGAR: The Nationwide Convention on Friday broke its silence on ‘The Kashmir Recordsdata’ announcing whilst the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits used to be a “stain on Kashmiriyat”, the film used to be a long way from the reality because the movie makers have not noted the sacrifices of the Muslims and Sikhs who had additionally suffered from militancy.

    Vice President of the social gathering and previous leader minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah stated that if ‘The Kashmir Recordsdata’ used to be a business film, no person has a subject, but when the movie makers declare that it’s in accordance with truth, then the information are the opposite direction spherical.

    “When the unlucky incident of Kashmiri Pandit migration came about, Farooq Abdullah used to be now not the executive minister. Jagmohan used to be the governor. It used to be V P Singh’s executive on the Centre which used to be supported by way of the BJP from out of doors,” Abdullah advised journalists in Damal Hanji Pora of Kulgam district of South Kashmir.

    Abdullah puzzled why this reality used to be refrained from the film.

    “Do not manipulate the reality. It is not the precise factor.”

    “If Kashmiri Pandits have fallen sufferers to terrorism, we have now utmost be apologetic about about that, however allow us to now not disregard the sacrifices of Muslims and Sikhs who have been additionally centered by way of the similar gun,” he stated.

    Abdullah stated that a few of the ones from the bulk group have been but to go back.

    “Lately, there’s a wish to create an environment the place lets deliver again all those that had left their houses and now not create a communal divide,” he stated.

    The previous leader minister stated an environment can be created for the go back of Kashmiri Pandits.

    “However I don’t assume that the ones individuals who have made this film, need them (Kashmiri Pandits) to go back. Via this image, they would like Pandits to stay out of doors at all times,” he stated.

    Abdullah later took to Twitter and stated, “The ache and struggling of 1990 and after cannot be undone. The best way Kashmiri Pandits had their sense of safety snatched from them and needed to go away the valley is a stain on our tradition of Kashmiriyat. We need to in finding tactics to heal divides and now not upload to them.”

    Whilst replying to one of the vital tweets by way of a Kashmiri Pandit concerning the causes for an extended silence, Abdullah reminded him announcing “I have been announcing it for years now, each as CM and out of place of work. In all probability you were not taking note of what I used to be announcing then. I have been a very long time suggest of a Reality and Reconciliation fee to appear in all that came about from 1990 onwards.”

    All through his tenure as the executive minister, Abdullah had advocated putting in of a Reality and Reconciliation Fee to enter the occasions unfolding for the reason that onset of militancy.

    Previous, in his deal with, Abdullah stated makes an attempt have been being made to defame a group the world over.

    “A not unusual Kashmiri isn’t proud of what came about 32 years in the past, that individuals have been made to depart the Valley. Lately, an influence is being created that each one Kashmiris are communal, that each one Kashmiris don’t endure the folks from different religions. What’s going to be completed by way of this? Will it make the street more uncomplicated for his or her go back? “I’m afraid that the hatred which is being created in opposition to Kashmiri Muslims lately, God forbid, our youngsters learning out of doors the state, must now not endure its brunt,” he stated, including, it’s the responsibility of the governments around the nation to make sure the protection of Kashmiris, together with the scholars staying in different states and union territories.

    At the prevalent political scenario, Abdullah stated there used to be no fact in what used to be being projected by way of the Centre in Jammu and Kashmir and around the nation.

    “We have been of the opinion that the bottom scenario will witness a marked growth with time. However the scenario is worsening with every passing day. We have not come throughout any effort to bridge the gaps of distrust. To the contrary, we sadly see how a whole group is being denigrated,” he stated.

    Regarding Top Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks “Dil aur Dilli ki Doori” made right through the all-party assembly remaining 12 months, the NC chief stated as a substitute of decreasing the ‘doori’ (hole), “There’s an try to defame all of the country of Kashmir around the nation.”

  • NC leader Farooq Abdullah requires higher function for girls in coverage making plans, decision-making

    By way of PTI

    JAMMU: Announcing that the Nationwide Convention has all alongside been striving for gender equality, celebration president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday laid emphasis on political empowerment of ladies and their higher function in coverage making plans and decision-making.

    “Involvement of ladies in decision-making and coverage making plans is important for reaching complete, impartial and sustainable construction, which can in the end result in harmonious enlargement of the society,” Abdullah, a former leader minister, stated.

    Interacting with the newly constituted provincial ladies wing of the celebration at a serve as right here, Abdullah referred to measures taken through his celebration through the years for girls empowerment and emancipation and stated that is important for selling management roles amongst them.

    Provincial president of the ladies wing Satwant Kour Dogra offered the brand new office-bearers.

    Congratulating them, Abdullah stated because of the present state of affairs the ladies of Jammu and Kashmir had been the worst victims.

    “Discrimination and depravity on the societal and domestic-level with our moms and sisters isn’t unknown on this a part of the sector.

    Emerging unemployment and inflation in J&Okay may be having a cascading impact on our promising ladies,” he stated.

    “Having ladies in politics, it is going with out announcing, will attune celebration insurance policies against the wishes of ladies and get ready them for the management roles to stand the demanding situations of the current and long term,” he stated.

    “The desire of the hour is to supply a platform to aspiring ladies and assist in developing impactful voices to take at the looming demanding situations,” he stated and was hoping that the functionaries would achieve out to the folks and assist clear up their issues.