New Delhi: Congress on Friday sought to downplay the recent remarks of its ally National Conference (NC) in Jammu and Kashmir on AFSPA, autonomy and the hanging of Afzal Guru. Party spokesperson Rashid Alvi said the NC and Congress are running an alliance government in the state and "what will happen in next election, the leadership of Congress party will decide."
He was asked how will Congress, which has a different take on these issues, fight the next election in alliance with NC. Asked to explain whether he meant that Congress could change the ally in the next election, Alvi said he did not mean any such thing. Union Minister and NC chief Farooq Abdullah, in a meeting of the party's Central Working Committee (CWC) held a few days back had said that AFSPA should be lifted in a phased manner from various parts of the state.
The meeting was attended by the working president of the party Omar Abdullah and all the members of the CWC. It also expressed its deep anguish over the denial of the opportunity to the family of Afzal Guru of meeting him before his execution and demanded the return of his mortal remains to the bereaved family. It had also sought restoration of Jammu and Kashmir's autonomy.
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03:15 AM, Apr 13, 2013
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09:15 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Srinagar: Suspected militants on Monday night gunned down a sarpanch affiliated to the ruling National Conference (NC) in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, police said. Ghulam Mohammad Lone, 45, was shot by the militants inside his residence at Kulpora village, 35 km from Srinagar, they said. Lone, who was associated with ruling NC, died on the spot, they said. No militant outfit has so far claimed responsibility for Lone's killing....
11:11 PM, Apr 08, 2013
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01:02 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday accused the the National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition of plunging the state into "political instability" and said the "prevailing uncertainty" was the result of the government's wrong policies. "From day one when this government was formed, there is instability and uncertainty in the state. The state has been plunged into morass and political instability due to the wrong policies of the present National Conference-Congress regime,"...
02:00 AM, Apr 01, 2013
At a time when the UPA government is struggling to keep its allies together, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has given a vote of confidence to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. In an interview to CNN IBN's Suhasini Haider, he said that the National Conference won't abandon the UPA government just because it is going through a rough patch. ...
06:57 PM, Mar 29, 2013
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06:57 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Relenting to the Jammu and Kashmir government's pressure, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has handed over Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah's case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah has welcomed the decision and said that the probe will clear everything. ...
04:56 PM, Mar 25, 2013
The Congress leader reacted to Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah's statements saying that informing Afzal Guru's family by Speed Post was part of the protocol. ...
08:44 AM, Feb 11, 2013
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06:58 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Srinagar: National Conference leader Mustafa Kamal, who is also the uncle of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on Wednesday made a U-turn on his reported anti-India comments and said that he had been misquoted. Mustafa Kamal said that he was a patriot and had been being unfairly targeted after he called India Kashimr's number one enemy. Kamal embarrassed his nephew Omar Abdullah on Tuesday by claiming that it...
12:17 PM, Nov 14, 2012
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06:05 PM, Oct 27, 2012
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02:14 PM, Oct 05, 2012
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08:40 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Mehbooba Mufti of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) hit out at the Jammu and Kashmir government saying Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had failed the sarpanchs of the valley. "This government has failed. Unfortunately, this government has not given any power to the sarpanchs," she said. Two sarpanchs have been killed in the past fortnight in the state by alleged terrorists, leading to mass resignation by village heads in protest. ...
11:00 AM, Sep 29, 2012
Srinagar/New Delhi: The killing of two sarpanches by terrorists in Kashmir has pitted the Congress party against its ally the National Conference. Youth Congress activists were on Friday lathicharged by the police in Jammu as they protested against the Omar Abdullah government, even as Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi pitched for more powers for local body leaders. The sarpanches in the state have also reacted strongly against the Jammu and...
09:05 PM, Sep 28, 2012
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03:40 PM, Sep 28, 2012
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02:19 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Srinagar: Ruling National Conference leader Mustafa Kamal on Sunday accused hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani of being "a double agent" on "the payroll of Pakistan's ISI". "(Geelani is) a double agent ... a four time MLA who has been drawing pension and has been even on the payroll of ISI, should we consider him fit enough to talk about morality," National Conference Additional General Secretary Mustafa Kamal alleged,...
08:07 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has finally been given a clean chit in the death case of National Conference party worker Haji Yousuf. The chief minister was exonerated in a magisterial inquiry, which said that the party worker died of heart attack. Omar, however, refused to comment on the issue. He said, "The Justice Bedi Commission has not concluded its inquiry. So I will not be commenting...
09:21 AM, Apr 30, 2012
