Voters queue up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Srinagar during the fourth phase of voting in the Lok Sabha election on May 13, 2024. | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD Reacting to the voter turnout DPAP chief Ghulam Nabi Azad and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti reacted differently to the voter turnout in … Read more
Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chief Ghulam Nabi Azad with his son Saddam Nabi Azad and others at the party’s youth convention in Srinagar on Sunday, February 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad’s son Saddam Nabi Azad has joined active politics, party spokesperson said on Sunday. … Read more
February 02, 2023 11:05 pm | Updated February 03, 2023 12:15 am IST – SRINAGAR/JAMMU Jammu and Kashmir Kisan Tehreek supporters stage a protest in Srinagar on February 2, 2023 against the administration’s land eviction drive across the Kashmir Valley. | Photo Credit: ANI Amid growing protests over the Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor administration’s … Read more
After being conferred the Padma Bhushan award in the field of public affairs, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said he hoped to eradicate religion- and caste-based politics which were widespread in the country. Speaking exclusively to ANI, Azad said, “I had talked about the responsibility of political parties previously also with the same sense … Read more
Ghulam Nabi Azad, a leader of Congress‘ change-seekers’ group, has shared with party chief Sonia Gandhi a broad framework for a “collective and inclusive leadership” that his group has demanded, people aware of the development told ET. Revival of the Congress Parliamentary Board (CPB), the most powerful decision-making body before it was junked in the … Read more
G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is likely to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday, while members of the dissenting group in the Congress Thursday held a flurry of meetings where they insisted they will fight for revamping the party while staying within its fold. Sources in the grouping said the leaders, during the parleys, … Read more
Senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta on Sunday hit back at veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad for dubbing the autocratic rule of maharajas “far better” than the current dispensation in Jammu and Kashmir. Azad had made the remark in a veiled attack at the BJP, after the traditional practice of … Read more
There has been a slump in business and developmental activities in Jammu and Kashmir over the last two and a half years and people are heading towards poverty, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said here. In a veiled attack at the BJP, Azad said the autocratic rule of the maharajas was far better than … Read more
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad‘s public outreach programme across Jammu and Kashmir in the past few weeks, independent of his party’s involvement, has fuelled speculation that the former chief minister could be preparing for a new role in regional politics. Although Azad has claimed that there is no immediate plan to float a separate … Read more
The Centre should conclude the delimitation process in Jammu and Kashmir by February and hold assembly polls immediately after the winter, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Saturday. Addressing a workers’ meeting in Devsar area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam, about 75 kms from here, Azad also said it was not feasible to conduct polls … Read more