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Elections

This section is a window to the Parliamentary, Assembly, Panchayat and Urban Local Bodies elections in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Kashmir: Half State, Full Tension

With a landslide mandate, Omar Abdullah's government took over with a 5-member cabinet amid an ocean of issues and Himalayas of expectations. As the...

Kashmir: Frozen Alternatives

Unlike a two-party contest in Jammu, the majority voter in Jammu Kashmir was given seven choices. Behaving maturely, the electors understood the game plan...

Kashmir: An Amazing Verdict

In 2024’s free and fair election to a skirted assembly, the electors in Jammu and Kashmir gave a landslide mandate to JKNC. It brought...

Kashmir: NC’s Grand Return

Omar Abdullah’s decade-old promise to return to power is now a reality, as his party, in alliance with the Indian National Congress, has decisively...

CM On The Wall

With results of the hugely participated historic assembly election 2024 to be out, the focus is getting into government formation and the politician who...
Voters after their votes in South Kashmir.

Kashmir: A Historic Election

Jammu and Kashmir cast their ballots in a pivotal election, marking the region's first electoral exercise in a decade and the first since losing...

Kashmir Election: The Independent Crowd

For the second time in Jammu and Kashmir’s recent electoral history, 40 per cent of candidates who ran for the 90-seat assembly were independents....

Women in Kashmir Elections

In a stark revelation of Jammu and Kashmir's gender disparity, only 35 of 873 candidates running for 90-seat assembly elections are female candidates. Umaima...

Jail Manufactured Contests

The successful campaign that Engineer Rashid’s son launched to make their father a member of the Lok Sabha emerged as a trend in the...

Central Kashmir’s Low Turnout Poll

The second of the three-phase assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir had a huge emotional content but a compromised turnout. After meeting contestants and...

Kashmir’s Next-Gen Politicians

Kashmir's political landscape is witnessing a major shift as the younger generation of prominent families steps into politics. Although these heirs plan to carry...

Kashmir’s First Social Media Election 

 As Kashmir moves towards the second of the 3-phase ‘historic’ elections, social media has emerged as a crucial tool for politicians to connect with...

Kashmir: South Kashmir Polls

With votes sealed in EVMs, the first of the 3-phase assembly elections will offer a clear idea about PDP’s future in a changed Jammu...

Chadoora Assembly Constituency: A Profile

In Chadoora while JKNC and PDP are fighting it out, the debate is more about the absence of Javid Mustafa Mir who represented this...

Kashmir: Reviving Journalism?

As Jammu and Kashmir prepares for assembly polls, the region's troubled media landscape has come under scrutiny, with two main regional parties acknowledging the...