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...
A New Legislative Map?
If the draft proposals by the 3-member Delimitation Commission are accepted, this is going to be the new map of post-2019 democratic set-up, reports...
DDC’s Dozen Questions
In Kashmir, every solution triggers new queries. While the BJP government devised a new system within the democratic set-up to address the representation issues...
Division Dividend
At least a dozen seats were won by BJP, independents and Apni Part because of the infighting within PAGD and its failure to take...
The Female Flock
For the first time in history, such a large number of women from Jammu and Kashmir will join the system as members of the...
Women In Power
The ongoing District Development Council (DDC) election is adding around 100 new females to the power set-up in Jammu and Kashmir. Right now when...
Unending Fault Lines
The desperation to retain the turf created a situation that PAGD candidates at various places are contesting against the parties that make the alliance....
A Bride’s Battle
In order to fight for the rights of 350 women who married Kashmiri boys on the other side of the Line of Control (LoC),...
Turf Wars
The first post-5/8 election for the newly created developmental bodies across Jammu and Kashmir has neither prevented established politicians from jumping into the micro-constituencies...
Customized Democracy?
Ahead of the first phase of DDC polls, the PAGD ‘gang’ alleged that most of its contesting candidates are being driven to secured accommodation...
BJP’s New Tensions
Though the elections for the local bodies and Panchayats were considered a hugely partial exercise, at least in Kashmir, the outcome of the just...
Low Poll Heroics
In the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls that gave Narendra Modi a Himalayan mandate, Jammu and Kashmir also sent six representatives to the Lok Sabha....
Election Takeaways
After Jammu and Kashmir concluded the security-intensive Lok Sabha polls that exhibited low participation, Shams Irfan reports the tensions in the political class as...
A Workers’ Election?
As voters in down south are exhibiting a rare indifference towards their right to vote, the political parties are using individual efforts to get...
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...
