Mian Altaf’s Spiritual Stakes
A reluctant contestant, JKNC’s Mian Altaf Ahmad holds the dual status of being a politician and a spiritual leader of the Gujjars. In the...
The Lilliput’s In Contest
Sajid Raina offers a quick introduction to a few candidates from north Kashmir Baramulla who are in a contest but not for the victory
In...
A Cliffhanger Contest
In North Kashmir, 22 candidates are vying for 1.7 million votes and the contest is between Omar Abdullah and Sajad Lone. But the two...
First Timer Concerns
More than 340 thousand voters will cast their votes for the first time. Syed Batool Andrabi talks to some of the first-timers to understand...
Drumming for Democracy
Kashmir political parties and their workers are using theatre, music and Bollywood to garner voter attention and almost all parties have tailor-made numbers as...
The Candidate Crowd
They know they are not winning, but they are contesting either as independents or on behalf of parties least known in Kashmir. Â Mujtaba Hussain...
The Srinagar Contest
With 24 candidates in the fray, the triangular contest is bipolar inside. Though pinching each other for one or the other thing, JKNC and...
Pir Panchal: Challenging Areas, Interesting Politics
Polling was supposed to stamp the Mughal Road to reach the Jhelum Valley through the newly created trans-Pir Panchal constituency. In stage one, the...
Ladakh’s Saffron Drought
In 2019, BJP won Ladakh for helping the region break away from Jammu and Kashmir and emerge as a UT. Five years later, the...
 BJP’s Shadow Survival In Kashmir?
Ruling Jammu and Kashmir remotely since 2018 and resorting to a series of interventions, in the last five years, that changed the erstwhile state...
Dissimulating the Pain?
The voter is seemingly angry and frustrated in Jammu, the erstwhile Nagpur of right-wing. Will this lead to a change in the region’s political...
Udhampur: A Rajput Fight
Of the dozen-odd candidates in the fray for the Udhampur LS seat, the contest is between Congress and BJP, represented by Rajputs, Lal Singh...
LS Polls: Allies and Alliances
Only two of the six Lok Sabha berths in erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state will have a black-and-white contest between BJP and Congress. The...
LS Polls: Surprising Start
With Udhampur going into the first phase of polls, the Lok Sabha elections have started throwing surprises in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Faiqa Masoodi
With...
Election Year Begins?
With the Lok Sabha polls taking place soon after Ramzan, the Muslim month of fasting, the political class is witnessing activity after a long...
