Morning News Stage was today set for second phase of voting in 18 Assembly segments of Jammu and Kashmir today with polling staff and security personnel taking control of all 2181 polling stations set up for 15.35 lakh electorates. * Seventy two candidates including sitting and former Ministers, MLAs and bigwigs of various political parties have filed nomination papers for 20 Assembly constituencies of Jammu, Kathua and Rajouri districts, which will go to polls in fifth and final phase of Assembly elections on December 20. * Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has vowed to defeat all designs to fragment the state and to weaken its special status, while accusing three major parties – BJP, Congress and PDP – of “uniting” in their political opposition against National Conference (NC). * State Government has refuted the Central Government claim that Government didn’t provide them details regarding fully and partially damaged houses in the September floods and bank details of the house owners. * Using human shields, Maoists yesterday unleashed a major attack killing 14 CRPF personnel, including two officers, and injuring 12 others in the second ambush on the force in 10 days in the same area in Naxal-infested Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. * Militants last evening fired at and critically injured People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Sarpanch in South Kashmir district of Shopian, even as security has been intensified after last night’s killing of National Conference (NC) Sarpanch in the same area. * Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag yesterday visited the forward areas and reviewed the overall security situation in Kashmir valley. * After gruesome fidayeen attack in Arnia, BSF is not takng any chances and has increased its round the clock vigil to defeat the nefarious designs of the neighboring country to push in trained infiltrators to disturb election process in the plain areas of Jammu and Kathua belts. * Central Government officials have been permitted to travel to Jammu and Kashmir by private airlines as per the new Leave Travel Concession (LTC) rules. * Former Chief Minister and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) patron, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, has sought help of separatists in safeguarding the identity of the State.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 03:06:55 +0000
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