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In this election, being held without the spectre of violence, many more independents have taken the political plunge
Monday , 17 November '08
As the Valley braces for the first phase of Assembly polls tomorrow, one candidate is creating a buzz in Bandipore from the confines of his cell in the Capital’s Tihar Jail.Monday , 17 November '08
When Bandipore district goes to polls on Monday, other parts of the Valley will be put under an undeclared curfew to avoid anti-poll protests.Monday , 17 November '08
Unlike the 2002 polls, there will be no foreign election observers this time to monitor the seven-phased Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir.Monday , 17 November '08
Ffrom being the ‘moral brigade’ of Kashmir, propagating strict adherence to purdah, a few hundred of the veiled women from Dukhtaran-e-Milat, the banned organisation led by Asiya Andrabi, have now joined the anti-poll campaign in Kashmir.Monday , 17 November '08
In the twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch, the Amarnath land row had seemed to divide people into Hindus and Muslims until last month.Monday , 17 November '08
In a major setback to the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, its senior vice-president and pro-Jammu voice Hari Om quit the party and joined the Congress, hours before the first phase of polls in the state.Monday , 17 November '08
As an answer to the National Conference’s autonomy and Peoples Democratic Party’s self-rule slogans, the Congress on Sunday promised that if it was voted to power in the Assembly polls, it would amend the state’s Constitution so as to provide federal structure, envisaging regional councils for Jammu and Kashmir.
Sunday , 16 November '08
If there is one assessment of the polls in Kashmir by the Election Commission that has come true, it’s on the weather.Sunday , 16 November '08
Amid fears that separatist marches and militant attacks could hinder the first phase of polling in Jammu and Kashmir on November 17..Saturday , 15 November '08
For the Abdullah family and the National Conference, the 2008 assembly polls are much more than just another election.Thursday , 13 November '08
In the first instance of poll violence in the state, unidentified persons hurled a grenade on National Conference.Wednesday , 12 November '08
Explaining why he is contesting the elections to the J&K assembly, Mohammad Ashraf Bhat of Tral recounts the story of a deep personal tragedy.Tuesday , 11 November '08
Poll fervour may be missing in the Valley but Shabnum Lone has plunged into the electoral fray.Monday , 10 November '08
The first phase of polling is just nine days away, and Kashmir is yet to witness the stirrings of an election campaign.
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