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no more good
service
providers?
Stop cow smuggling along IndoBangla border:
Rajnath to BSF
Commissioner/Secretar
y H&ME, Gazzanfer
Hussain flagging off an
awareness rally during
World AIDS Day in
Jammu on Monday.
State climbers pose
with Association
president, BR Sharma
before their departure
for the Nationals at
Jammu on Monday.
“We were born to be real not to be perfect.”
Fate of 175 candidates to be sealed in EVMs
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: 9.4 °C
RELATIVE HUMIDITY : 54 %
SUNSET : 5:26 pm Today
SUNRISE : 7:17 am Tomorrow
In BRIEF
Maoists kill 13
CRPF personnel
RAIPUR: Using human
shields, Maoists today
killed 13 CRPF personnel, including two officers, and injured an equal
number in the second
attack on the force in 10
days in the same area in
the Naxal hotbed of
Sukma district in
Chhattisgarh.
(Details on P-5)
Sarpanch shot at by
militants, injured
SRINAGAR: In another
daring attack, suspected
militants tonight shot at
and critically injured a
sarpanch, who had joined
People's Democratic
Party earlier today, in
Shopian district of south
Kashmir, police said.
Shiraz Ahmad Bhat was
critically injured after
some militants shot at
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X-CUSE ME PLZ...!
SHEKHAR
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU, DEC 1: The fate
of as many as 175 candidates including sitting and
former ministers and legislators will be sealed in the
Electronic Voting Machines
tomorrow as the stage has
been set for
Phase-2 polling
to be held in five
districts
of
Jammu
and
Kashmir.
The fate of 175 candidates including 8 women
candidates will be locked in
the voting machines as the
polling in 18 Assembly
Constituencies of five districts of Jammu and
Kashmir
including
Udhampur, Reasi, Poonch,
Kupwara and Kulgam hav-
ing around 15.35 lakh electorates including over
17,000 Kashmiri migrant
voters will be held tomorrow amid tight security
arrangements.
Four Ministers including
CAPD
Minister
Choudhary
Mohammad
R a m z a n
(Handwara),
Social Welfare
Minister
Sakina
Itoo
(Noorabad), Law and
Parliamentary
Affairs
Minister Saifullah Mir
(Kupwara) and Minister of
State for Revenue Aijaz
Khan (Gool-Arnas) are also
in the fray in Phase 2 apart
from the former Ministers
and sitting legislators.
"Luck
of
sitting
PHASE-2
TODAY
Army chief visits
forward areas,
reviews security
28 school dropouts, 55 crorepatis
in contest
SRINAGAR: Ahead of the
second phase polling in
Jammu and Kashmir, Army
Chief General Dalbir Singh
Suhag today visited the
forward
areas
and
reviewed overall security
situation prevailing in the
Valley.
"The Chief of Army Staff
(COAS) visited the forward
posts in the Tangdhar and
Machhil sectors and the
Dagger
Division
at
Baramulla. At each location, the COAS was briefed
by the Commanders in the
SRINAGAR: Out of the 175
candidates in fray in 18 constituencies of Jammu and
Kashmir which are going to
polls in the second phase
tomorrow, 97 or more than
50 per cent are not graduates and nine have criminal
cases against them.
The affidavits submitted
by the candidates along with
their nomination papers
suggest that nine of them
are illiterate while 28 are
school drop-outs, according
to Association of Democratic
Reforms (ADR).
Ministers, many former
Ministers, sitting MLAs
and Independent candidates
including BJP and NC
rebels, would be sealed in
the EVMs tomorrow," an
official here said.
The election campaign
for Phase-2 ended last
evening wherein star campaigners including the
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, AICC Vice President
Rahul Gandhi, AICC
General Secretary Ambika
Soni and other stalwarts
from
BJP,
Congress
addressed the election rallies to woo voters in support of their candidates.
The campaign remained
by and large peaceful in all
the constituencies, where
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PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed addressing a public
rally in Pulwama on Monday.
India can become a superpower
if Kashmir resolves: Mufti
GJ REPORT
PULWAMA/SHOPIAN,
DEC
1:
Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP)
Patron Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed today said India can
emerge as a super power
only if the country's leadership makes tangible move-
Omar vows
to defeat all
designs to
fragment J&K
GJ REPORT
Billawar, Hiranagar and
Bani
Assembly
Constituencies.
In Kathua constituency,
four candidates including
Rajiv
Jasrotia
(BJP),
Romesh Kumar (BJP),
Subash Chander (PDP), and
Neelam Sharma (PDP), in
Basohli constituency, seven
candidates
including
Jagdish
Raj
Spolia
(Congress), Rajinder Kumar
(Independent), Rangil Singh
(PDP), Khadam Hussain
Wani (BSP), Shams Deen
(Independent), Davinder
SRINAGAR, DEC 1:
Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah today 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).
"NC would uphold the
political individuality, dignity and status of Jammu
and Kashmir and pledges
to defeat all designs to
fragment the state and to
weaken its special status.
"Contrary to their election rhetoric the fact is that
all other political parties be it the BJP, the Congress
or the PDP - have united in
their political opposition to
what NC represents and the
ideals that we uphold,"
Omar said addressing roadshows in Beerwah where
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JAMMU, DEC 1: The
Bhartiya Janata Party senior
leader Ajatshatru Singh,
‘Slip of tongue’
who recently joined the
Saffron party, today took
the gathering by surprise
when he had a 'Slip of
Tongue' and appealed to
voters to press the button of
'Hal' while addressing an
election rally in Nagrota
Assembly Constituency on
city outskirts in favour BJP
candidate. Ajatshatru Singh,
who had been into National
Conference fold for years,
had joined the BJP this
November in New Delhi in
presence of BJP national
president Amit Shah.
According to eye-witnesses, Singh, while concluding his long address at
the rally appealed to voters,
from Left: Candidates B R Kundal, Sham Lal Sharma, Rakesh Wazir, Nirmal Singh, TS Tony, Kavinder Gupta and Daman Bhasin after filing their nomination papers for Phase Five of J&K Assembly Polls.
Amar/Rakesh Khajuria
J&K Polls: 50 candidates file nomination for Phase-5
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
JAMMU, DEC 1: As many
as 50 candidates representing national and regional
political parties besides
independents today filed
their nomination papers in
their constituencies for the
Phase-5 polling in which 20
Assembly segments of three
districts including Jammu,
Kathua and Rajouri will go
to poll on December 20.
As per officials, in
Jammu district, sitting
Ministers and MLAs apart
from former ministers today
filed their nominations
before their respective
Returning Officers.
BJP's seven candidates
including Nand Kishore
Sharma
(Nagrota),
Sukhnandan
Choudhary
(Marh), Krishan Lal Bhagat
(Akhnoor), Kavinder Gupta
(Gandhi Nagar), Dr Gagan
Bhagat (R S Pura), Bali
Bhagat (Raipur Domana)
and Sat Sharma (Jammu
West) filed their nominations.
Meanwhile
Congress
candidates
Vikram
Malhotra (Jammu East),
former Minister Mula Ram
Tight vigil,
security in place
on IB: IG BSF
I
n view of recent terror
attack in Arnia SubSector in which 12
people including three
soldiers, five civilians and
four militants were killed,
Inspector General BSF
Rakesh Sharma today said
that tight vigil and security has been put in place
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(Raipur-Domana) and PHE
Minister Sham Lal Sharma
(Akhnoor) also filed their
papers.
NCP candidate Sandeep
Manhas, BSP candidate
Rakesh Wazir, PDP candidates
Daman
Bhasin
(Jammu West) and Suram
Singh (Marh) and independents Udhay Chand (Jammu
West) and B R Kundal (R S
Pura filed their papers)
today in Jammu disytrict.
However, in Kathua, 22
candidates have filed today
their nomination papers for
the
Kathua,
Basholi,
LET’S UPDATE OURSELVES WITH ELECTORAL FACTS
Today's Constituencies
43-KOKERNAG &
44-SHANGUS
Polling Date: 14th Dec 2014
Kokernag
DINESH NARGOTRA
JAMMU, Dec 1:
1983
T
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BJP leader
appeals to
voters to press
button of 'hal'
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he people of Jammu and
Kashmir are all set to elect
their representatives to the
Legislative Assembly during the
five-phase elections commencing
on 25th Nov 2014 and ending on
20th Dec 2014. The counting of
votes shall be held on 23rd Dec
2014 and the poll results are
expected to be announced by
late night on the same day.
Greater Jammu shall be updating
its readers with some significant
and interesting facts pertaining
to the past and forthcoming
elections in various constituencies. The Greater Jammu team
has made a humble endeavour
to collect the relevant data from
various agencies and present it
daily to the readers to make
them aware about the State's
Assembly history.
ment forward in resolving
issues with Pakistan including the Kashmir issue.
"India can attain the position of super power only if it
improves ties with Pakistan
by resolving all the unsettled issues including the
YEAR
1977
1987
1996
PARTIES
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(JKP) J&K PEOPLES CONFERENCE
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(IND) INDEPENDENTS (3)
(CPM) COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST)
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(JKAL) JAMMU AND KASHMIR AWAMI LEAGUE
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(JD) JANATA DAL
(JPP) J&K PANTHERS PARTY
WINNERS
MALIK GHULAM UD DIN (JKN)
PROMINENT LOSERS
PEER HISSAM UD DIN (INC)
REGD. VOTERS
32202
VOTES POLLED
24121
PERCENTAGE
74.91%
MALIK GHULAM UD DIN (JKN)
PEER HISSAM UD DIN (INC)
36711
29443
80.20%
PEERZADA MOHD. SYED (INC)
HAJI MOHD. ABDULLA SHEIKH (IND)
40540
35655
87.95%
SYED ABDUL RASHID (JKN)
ABDUL RASHID RATHER (JKAL)
58733
23866
40.63%
Contd. on P-4
Shangus
YEAR
1977
1983
1987
1996
PARTIES
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(JNP) JANATA PARTY
(IND) INDEPENDENT
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE (2)
(IND) INDEPENDENT
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(IND) INDEPENDENTS (4)
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(JD) JANATA DAL
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
WINNERS
MOHD. ASHRAF KHAN (JKN)
PROMINENT LOSERS
MOHAMAD MAQBOOL (INC)
REGD. VOTERS
30085
VOTES POLLED
23351
PERCENTAGE
77.62%
MOHD. MAQBOOL (INC)
MOHD, ASHRAF KHAN (JKN)
35323
28952
81.96%
ABDUL RASHID DAR (JKN)
JAMSEED GHULAM MOHD. (IND)
40719
33139
81.38%
ABDUL MAJEED (JKN)
GOWHAR MAQBOOL (JD)
47298
24994
52.84%
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CMYK

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