NEWS HEADLINES : * About 49% voters exercised their right to franchise in the 4thphase of Assembly Elections-2014 across 18 Assembly constituencies of four districts in the state including Srinagar, Anantnag, Shopian and Samba. * An FIR was filed against BJP candidate from Shopian Javed Ahmad Qadri, who was caught on camera thrashing a man in a polling booth, while another party nominee Hina Bhat allegedly slapped an election official claiming irregularities. * Workers of rival political parties today clashed at nearly a dozen places during polling in Srinagar and Anantnag districts of Kashmir Valley. * Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said that the BJP would not go with any regional party to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir. He added that the party had not deviated from its stand on Article 370. * The BJP senior leader and veteran cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu today claimed that the Congress party and its leaders are like termite in our country and BJP is committed to save the people as well the country from that termite. * Hitting hard the BJP and its state leadership for cheating the people of Jammu for the alleged `sell out’ to the Valley based party for the lust of money, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that the BJP has lost the moral right to go to Jammu people for seeking vote. * As polling was underway in Sonawar assembly constituency in J&K, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who is contesting from the seat, said his thoughts were with his parents who are undergoing an organ transplant in the UK. * Reiterating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bigger responsibilities at national and international level, the former Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed has claimed that his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was the only alternative before people of Jammu and Kashmir for getting their regional aspirations fulfilled. * Ahead of Barack Obamas visit to Delhi next month, the US government has once again alert the Indian government of a possible terror attack in the national capital and in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, where the polling for the fourth phase of the Assembly election is going on. * The car-borne youths who carried out acid attack on a law student in the city on Thursday allegedly tried to flee Kashmir as they attempted to catch a flight from Srinagar airport but could not get tickets.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 04:47:09 +0000
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