MORNING NEWS * Kashmir valley is under tightest ever security for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election rally with barricades in Srinagar erected everywhere to foil any attempts to disrupt the rally. * New Delhi bound Jammu-Rajdhani Express was yesterday night stopped at Chakki Bank railway station at Pathankot in Punjab following a call received by Jammu and Kashmir Police that a bomb had been planted inside the train. * Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has hit back at senior Congress leader and leader of Opposition in Upper House of the Parliament, Ghulam Nabi Azad, saying that he is an opportunist politician. * Army has said that the militants who attacked Army camp at Mohra in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday infiltrated through Uri sector from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and commended troops for avoiding attack on any civilian target which they were aiming at to disrupt the polls. * Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president, Mayawati has alleged that BJP has come to power with the support of big business houses and industrialists and is working for the interests of capitalists, ignoring the interests of poor and down-trodden people of the country. * The Election Commission of India has directed for putting in place all possible security measures for polling in 16 Assembly constituencies in Phase-III of Assembly elections on December 9 in view of multiple terror strikes in the State and inputs that the militants could try to disturb the polling after successful conduct of first two phases of polls with huge turnout of 71.28 and 72.1 per cent respectively. * PDP Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has said that Kashmir’s accession to India strengthened the secular credentials of the country and any attempt at dismantling the special status of Jammu and Kashmir would be an assault on the very idea of India. * Launching a scathing attack on BJP, leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha & Former Chief Minister of J&K, Ghulam Nabi Azad said the party which could not keep eleven MLAs together has no moral right to make misleading claims of achieving 44 seats in the State. * The workers of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and National Conference (NC) clashed at village Chagda in tehsil Bishnah over some rivalry, resulting into injuries to three persons including a Sarpanch of BJP.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 03:58:34 +0000
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