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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.

Chadoora 26

Located on the peripheries of Srinagar city Chadoora presents a sorry picture seeking attention of its representatives. Safwat Zargar talks to people across ideologies...

Ah Elections!

On Tuesday as results started to pour in there were more surprises and shockers than revelations in one of the most closely fought state...

Surprising Chenab

With BJP winning 4 out of 6 seats from Muslim majority Chenab Valley the shock is palpable in the region that remains divided on...

Mayor Making

As independents dominated the outcome of Srinagar’s lowest-polled municipal election, the politics reinvented the past to create a future that is in a sharp...

Plough, Pen and a Hand

As the election season draws near, ruling NC and opposition PDP are busy in creating chances of coalition with Congress. The election symbols of...

Ghulam Nabi Azad

Throughout his political career that started from Sanjay Gandhi days, Azad has contested twice from J&K. In 1977, he contested from Inderwal for the...

Discordant Tones

Two years after the BJP and PDP entered into polar alliance, nothing much has moved on the Kashmir front. After 2016 unrest and recent...

A Defeat and A Boycott

Why NC lost the game and how the separatist boycott influenced the outcome, an analysis by Nazir Hussain On May 7th after the last vote...

The Final Franchise

With total 213 candidates in the fray for the fifth and the final phase of polling in 20 Assembly seats of Jammu and Kashmir...

Mufti’s Last Gamble?

After giving PDP the highest ever seats in a hung house, nobody knows why there is inordinate delay in setting up of a government...

Pass It On

Politics has ceased to be a social service. It is a formal profession now. A generation is keen to upscale what it acquires. An...
Mehbooba Mufti during an election rally in South Kashmir.

Torn Between Loyalties

South Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency has created precedence in the electoral history as it would go to polls in three phases. Shams Irfan visited...

Campaign Whispers

With massive tensions at ground zero, PDP and Congress candidates pitted for the South Kashmir Lok Sabha seat are busy in a lethargic, low-cost,...

Centre Fold

One killing, one per cent increase in overall votes and boycott marked Srinagar elections as fate of 14 candidates is to be decided. Is...

Battling For Lal Chowk

With both NC and PDP busy in pre-poll rhetoric, their rival BJP’s lady dentist is going door-to-door in Amira Kadal. Safwat Zargar reports Among the...