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NC panel to decide about candidates
today Jammu, March14 BJP sources said, “We had decided to contest all six seats but in case we field a party candidate from Ladakh constituency it will help the National Conference.” The sources maintained,
‘‘we have suggested to the Leh Hill Development Council that in case it announced its support to the NDA polices the BJP will not field a candidate from the Ladakh Lok Sabha seat.” As far as Jammu and Udhampur constituencies were concerned the die has been cast in favour of Dr Nirmal Singh, president of the party and Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta, Minister of State for Defence, who is going to contest from Udhampur from where he had won earlier also. The BJP has decided to field a Kashmiri Pandit either from Srinagar or from Anantnag constituency. Even though the National Conference is in the opposition in the state yet a number of ticket seekers were knocking at the doors of the party. A senior party leader said the panel of names shortlisted by the NC includes the names of Ch.Tali Hussain, members of the dissolved Lok Sabha, Surjit Singh Slathia, a former minister, Mian Altaf, a Gujjar leader and a former minister, Mirza Abdul Rashid and A.R.Bukhari for the Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha
seat. Those being considered for the Udhampur-Kathua constituency include Mr Sajjad Kichloo, MLA, Mr Khalid Najib Sohrawardhy, Surjit Singh Slathia, Brij Mohan Sharma and Bharat Bushan. For the Congress, which has set its eyes on Jammu and Udhampur seats, the selection of candidates has become a difficult task because it may find the challenge from the BJP and the National Conference a tough one. Though the number of ticket seekers is quite large, which includes former MPs and ministers, the senior Congress functionaries favour Mr Mangat Ram Sharma, Deputy Chief Minister and Mr Lal Singh, Health Minister, as party candidates for Jammu and Udhampur constituencies, respectively. Congress circles in Jammu have conveyed to the High Command that Mr Mangat Ram may emerge as a dark horse with the possible split of votes between the National Conference and the BJP. It is not yet known whether the Congress will avoid fielding a candidate from Udhampur constituency in case Prof Bhim Singh stuck to his plan of contesting the poll from this constituency. |
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Govt, NC played communal card on Bill: Gupta Jammu, March 14 “The coalition government and the NC had deliberately played a communal card in the shape of the women’s Bill to communalise the situation in Jammu and Kashmir,” Mr Gupta told a public rally in the Londi area of Kathua district. Mr Gupta, campaigning in the Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency, asked the Congress to explain to the people why if supported this “malicious move” in the Assembly and what “forced it to change its stance” in the Upper House. He said as the leaders of this government, as also those of the National Conference, had “utterly failed” to keep their promises in the fields of development and other issues, they were trying to incite “communal passions” on the eve of the Lok Sabha poll to “mislead” the people. “This is highly dangerous and deplorable as it will encourage fundamentalism and secessionism which have already brought suffering and misery to the people of this state.” Their stance will create impediments in the efforts being made by the Centre to have peace in the state and with neighbouring Pakistan, he alleged. —
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Nine militants killed in J&K Srinagar, March 14 Six persons, including three minors, were wounded when an explosive device went off at Doodipora, Rajwar in the frontier district of Kupwara today, an official spokesman said. The injured have been admitted to a hospital, he added. He said the police recovered a bullet-ridden body of Kaka Gujjar from the forest of Chanch Marg Shopian in south Kashmir district of Pulwama last evening. Militants hurled a hand grenade towards a shop at Gulshanabad near Pahalgam last evening, causing extensive damage to the shop. However, shopkeeper Ghulam Nabi Baba escaped unhurt. Security forces killed three militants in an encounter at Mehandi Wala forest in Surankote area of Poonch district last night. The encounter followed after a search party was attacked by the militants. Three AK rifles, two hand grenades, six magazines and 12 rounds were seized from the slain militants. Security forces killed a militant identified as Abu Jabar of the Lashker-e-Toiba at Draja Lar Kati in Rajauri district late last night while another militant was shot dead by the forces at Dang Upper Panghi in the same district today. An AK rifle, two hand grenades and two magazines were seized from the encounter sites. Four hand grenades and a wireless set were also seized from a militant hideout at Kalakote last evening. A report from Baramula said a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was discovered at Dangiwachi Bus stand by some passengers today. The police was informed and the IED was defused by the bomb disposal squard, averting a tragedy. One person was killed and six others, mostly shepherds, were injured three of them seriously in an explosion in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir today, official sources said. A group of shepherds found an unexploded shell at Doodipora Handwara and started fiddling with it, the shell exploded injuring them, sources said. The injured were rushed to Srinagar hospital where 60-year-old Sarwar Ahmad succumbed to his injuries and the condition of three of them was stated to be serious, they added. JAMMU: Security forces shot dead four Pakistani militants in Rajouri and Doda districts of Jammu and Kashmir in separate incidents, official sources said today. Acting on specific information, troops launched a search operation in Thanamandi forest of Rajauri early this morning and in a gunbattle between the Jawans and militants, Lashkar-e-Toiba’s “sector commander” Abu Aksa was killed, they said here. One AK rifle, seven magazines, nine grenades, 130 rounds, two IEDs, one radio set, three UBGL grenades and some documents were found from the spot, they added. In another incident in Verinagar area of Rajauri , an LeT-militant was killed by security forces in an encounter, the sources said one AK rifle, two magazines, seven grenades and one radio set were recovered from him, they said. Meanwhile, militants kidnapped one person from upper Sharief village of
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Jammu district police chief transferred Jammu, March 14 Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu district, Kamal Saini, has been transferred with immediate effect and Rajesh Kumar of the Special Security Group of Chief Minister will be the new district police chief, a state home ministry official told PTI. As per a government order issued yesterday, Saini has been posted as SSP, Special Security Group of CM. The order has been issued by the Home Department with the concurrence of the Chief Electoral Officer, Jammu and Kashmir, he said. —
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Villagers stand up, refuse to give in to militants Srinagar, March 14 The villagers recently refused to give in to the demands of three extortionists who hurled a grenade to make good their escape after facing stiff resistance. Five civilians and the gang leader were killed and several injured in the incident on Tuesday night. The bells are tolling for extortionists, criminals, exploiters and militants whose vested interests coincided to inflict agony on people, a security official said. Three masked men trapped into the village and began looking for one Ghulam Hassan Dar, working in a project to join the Kashmir valley by rail. When they reached Dar’s house, the miscreants were in for a surprise. The family refused to hand over Dar. The three faced stiff resistance they had not bargained for, the official said. The remarkable courage shown by the Dar family encouraged neighbours to swoop down on the criminals. Despite being threatened with death with Bilal hurling a grenade, villagers showed there was a limit to their patience vis-a-vis militants which is wearing thin the official said. “A Ray of hope is there. The militants shall no longer expect walkover in their quest to spread terror,” he said. The incident has sown the seeds of hope of the common man taking on militants head on the official said. —
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