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When jailed Kashmir leader Sheikh Abdul Rashid filed his nomination from the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency in North Kashmir Monday, he became the third leader from Kupwara district to join the fray there, after Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference (JKPC) chief Sajad Lone and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Fayaz Ahmad Mir.
As Abrar Rashid raises the slogan “Tihar ka badla (The revenge for Tihar)…”, over 500 men and women respond with a resounding “Vote se (By vote)”. “Zulm ka badla (The revenge for injustice)…,” he says, and they respond, “Vote se”. “Jail ka badla”… “Vote se”.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah may be headed to Srinagar Thursday for a two-day visit to Kashmir, during which he will meet the BJP leaders and delegations from the Pahari community, trade bodies and civil society.
The entire Kargil unit of the National Conference (NC) has resigned, citing pressure from the party leadership to support the INDIA bloc candidate for the Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency, which votes on May 20.
Waheed ur Rehman Para, 36, the president of the youth wing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is the party’s candidate for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, which votes on May 13. He is up against the National Conference (NC)’s Aga Ruhullah Mehdi and the Apni Party’s Mohammad Ashraf Mir. In an interview withThe Indian Express, he talks about why this election is different and how it could help to break the “silence” in the Valley. Excerpts:
WHEN HE made a surprise visit to Jamia Masjid while campaigning for his party candidate Mohammad Ashraf Mir in Srinagar Old City Monday, J&K Apni Party leader Altaf Bukhari became the first mainstream leader since the inception of militancy in 1990 to do so.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top water official will be stepping down next month, wrapping up a four-decade career that has included work on water projects from New Mexico and Colorado to Texas.
The list of political parties which have approached the Election Commission seeking deferment of polls in Kashmir’s Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, 10 days before it votes on May 7, includes the BJP.