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Citizens should not pressure government into military action: Retd Lt. General Sudarshan Hasabnis | Pune News

Citizens should not pressure government into military action: Retd Lt. General Sudarshan Hasabnis | Pune News

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Speaking at the third Lalitaditya Memorial speech event organised by Sarhad in Pune, Retired Lieutenant General Sudarshan Hasabnis opined that Indian citizens should not create an internal environment that pressures the government into military action. He said, “The national response [to the Pahalgam attack], I am quite sure, will be both covert and overt. It will be multidimensional. Like I said just the other day, there is no point in us citizens trying to create a situation inside our country which puts pressure on the government to take military action.” At the event organised in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack, Hasabnis highlighted the media’s role in creating such an environment and said, “The media has a big role to play in this. In fact Mr Modi, in relation to the Ukrainian War and the Gaza War has repeatedly said that ‘this is not an era for war’. I am sure India doesn’t want war. At the same time, we as a united nation have to show that we have the resolve that in …

BJP’s Haryana victory is a referendum on Modi’s popularity, rejection of Congress’s caste politics

BJP’s Haryana victory is a referendum on Modi’s popularity, rejection of Congress’s caste politics

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The election results of Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir tell two different stories and defy narratives. The reason is obvious. The assembly polls were important, especially in terms of a broader political perception, because they were the first major elections after the Lok Sabha polls in which the BJP’s tally was reduced. Since then, opposition parties, primarily Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi, have spread propaganda against the BJP with great vigour. Yet, they do not have anything concrete with which to sway the people against the ruling dispensation. Propaganda can’t change reality. The Haryana election result is undoubtedly not a verdict for Manohar Lal Khattar or Bhupinder Singh Hooda. They may have been the primary actors, but the election was about far more. Had the BJP been defeated, it would not only have emboldened the Opposition parties but also encouraged them to initiate a fresh campaign against the BJP in general, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular. Although Haryana is a small state, it is a litmus test. The Opposition’s delusions of a …

Haseeb Drabu writes: In Jammu and Kashmir, the victor has their task cut out

Haseeb Drabu writes: In Jammu and Kashmir, the victor has their task cut out

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The mandate of the just concluded elections is decisive for the National Conference as a political party, could pose difficulties for it as it runs the government and is potentially disruptive for the politics of Jammu and Kashmir. J&K is a complex region whose politics has just become more complicated. Apart from the historical alienation of the Valley from the Union, politics within the erstwhile state seems to have become completely polarised. The mandate is virtually along communal lines, which cannot augur well for either the state or the country. This election will go down in the electoral history of J&K as the one in which Muslims of J&K, who have never been a political category, have been made one. With Pir Panjal (Rajouri and Poonch) and Chenab Valley (Doda and Bhaderwah), administratively a part of Jammu province, voting largely for NC,the 75-year-old Dixon plan of dividing the state along the Chenab seems to have een resuscitated. With the elected representatives of the entire region of the Jammu plains not being in government, it should …

‘I was in Tihar…They are puppets’: Er Rashid on PDP, NC calling him BJP proxy | Latest News India

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Lok Sabha MP from Baramulla, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, has dismissed allegations that he acts as a proxy for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)  Member Parliament and Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) chief Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, addresses a press conference ahead of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, in Srinagar on September 12.(PTI) Rashid believes that his success in the general elections demonstrates the public’s discontent with the Modi government’s ‘Naya Kashmir’ initiative. The Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) chief remarked that those who accuse him of being a BJP proxy should feel “ashamed of themselves,” asserting that he is the only mainstream leader to have faced persecution from the ruling party. “The people who accuse me of being a BJP proxy should feel ashamed. I am the only one who was victimised by the BJP. While Omar and Mehbooba were kept in SKICC for several months during the abrogation, I was the only MLA jailed in Tihar,” said Rashid in an interview with PTI videos.  He alleged that …

In Anantnag seat, BJP, though not in fray, is bent on defeating Muftis, Abdullahs

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Supporters listen to People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti, who is fighting Lok Sabha elections from Anantnag-Rajouri constituency addressed a gathering during a roadshow in Kokernag area of south Kashmir as part of her election campaign on April 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmad A lot is at stake for former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti and the BJP, which is not contesting elections formally, in the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, where polls will be held on May 25. For Ms. Mufti, the upcoming Assembly poll prospects solely depend on the performance in this seat, while the BJP is backing newly formed parties with the intention to blow the bugle of its arrival in the Kashmir Valley, for the first time since 1947. All the key political parties among 20 contestants, which include the PDP, the National Conference (NC), the J&K Apni Party (JKAP) and the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP), have been canvassing across one of the most geographically arduous constituency, with the Rajouri-Poonch belt …

Sajad Lone seeks help from JKAP to defeat NC for the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat

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J&K Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD J&K Peoples Conference (JKPC) president Sajad Lone, who is contesting from the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat, on Saturday sought the support of J&K Apni Party (JKAP) president Altaf Bukhari “to prevent fragmentation that has historically favoured the National Conference (NC)“. “It’s high time we unite to represent the true will of the majority in north Kashmir. We extend our hand to the JKAP, seeking their crucial support in Baramulla, just as we vow to back them in Srinagar to defeat the forces that have long betrayed the precious mandate of Kashmiris,” Mr. Lone said. Mr. Lone referred to nine out of ten MPs being from the NC in Baramulla. “The NC’s vote share has plummeted from a staggering 65% in 1982 to a mere 29% in 2019. They still emerged victorious due to the division among anti-NC votes,” he said. The NC secured only 133,426 votes out of the 455,999 cast. “A staggering 322,573 votes were cast against them. This means the NC secured …