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Vol. 6 No: 322 | JAMMU, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2014 | Pages: 12 | Price: R 2.50 | Air surcharge 50 paisa for Leh
World is looking
at India with
great respect:
Modi
Regional Director ICCR,
Balwant Thakur alongwith sponsored foreign
scholars with
Governor, N N Vohra in
Jammu on Friday.
"GEETRU"a Dogra folk
dance
The MHAC Nagbani
team in jubilant mood
after winning the title
trophy at GGM Science
College ground,
Jammu on Friday.
“There is no elevator to success.... you have to take the stairs....”
TEMPERATURE
MAX
: 25.4 °C
MIN
: 9.7 °C
RELATIVE HUMIDITY : 50 %
SUNSET : 5:29 pm Today
SUNRISE : 7:08 am Tomorrow
PM invites Obama as chief Abortive bid made on PDP rally, grenade did not explode
guest at R-Day parade
US Prez accepts
In BRIEF
166 candidates
file nominations
for Phase-3
JAMMU: On the last
day of filing of nominations today, 166 candidates have filed their
papers for Third phase of
Assembly election to be
held on December 9 covering 16 constituencies
spread over Baramulla,
Budgam and Pulwama
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Mercury dips in
Kashmir, Leh coldest
SRINAGAR: The mercury dropped further in
Jammu and Kashmir with
the minimum temperature
on Friday recorded at
minus 10.3 degrees Celsius
in Leh town. Dense fog
caused problems for
motorists and commuters
in Srinagar city, which
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Militants killed in
Tral belong to LeT
SRINAGAR: The three
militants killed in an
encounter with security
forces in Tral area of
Pulwama district of
Kashmir have been identified as Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) cadres, police said
today. One of them was a
self-styled commander of
the outfit, a police
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NEW DELHI, NOV 21: In
a major diplomatic victory
for the NDA government
and a massive boost to
Indo-American ties, US
President Barack Obama on
Friday accepted Prime
DG sanctions
welfare loan
for flood
affected cops
GJ REPORT
JAMMU,
NOV
21:
Jammu and Kashmir
Director General of Police
K Rajindera today sanctioned soft welfare loan of
R 9.94 crores in favour of
1987 flood affected police
personnel.
"The soft loan has been
sanctioned out of Central
Police Welfare Fund,
which is completely a contributory fund of the
Organization," an official
spokesman here said. He
said that the decision was
Minister Narendra Modi's
invite to be the chief guest
at the Republic Day celebrations next year. Obama
will be the first US
President to be the 'Guest of
Honour' on January 26.
PM Modi had posted on
Twitter informing of his
invite to Prez Obama. He
wrote, "This Republic Day,
we hope to have a friend
over…invited President
Obama to be the 1st US
President to grace the
Modi to visit
Kishtwar today
SRINAGAR, NOV 21: An abortive
bid was made to attack Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) rally in south
Kashmir by unidentified persons who
hurled a hand grenade when party
candidate was addressing the gather-
ing in south Kashmir district of
Kulgam this afternoon.
However, the grenade did not
explode and a person, who allegedly
hurled the grenade was arrested on the
spot, official sources said.
JAMMU: Union Minister of
State for PMO Jitendra
Singh today reviewed
arrangements for Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's
rally in Kishtwar and said
BJP is the only viable democratic option for selfrespecting people, particularly in a State like Jammu
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BJP declares three
more candidates
NEW DELHI, NOV 21:
BJP today declared three
more
candidates
for
Assembly elections in
Jammu and Kashmir, taking the total number to 75.
BJP leader expelled
While Neelam Gash was
nominated by the party to
contest from Zadibal
Assembly constituency,
Rafiq Wani was put in fray
from Anatnag Assembly
seat. BJP also fielded Goul
Ahmed Mir to contest the
Dooru constituency.
The party's Central
Election Committee cleared
JAMMU: Bhartiya Janata
Party today expelled the
senior party leader for contesting Assembly elections
as independent candidate
against an official candidate from Udhampur
Constituency.
"BJP State President and
MP Jugal Kishore Sharma,
in consultation with party
high command, today
expelled Pawan Gupta
from primary membership
of party with immediate
effect," official spokesman
here said.
He said that the decision
has been taken keeping in
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J&K polls
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NC denied people of J&K benefits
of food scheme: Sonia
Slams BJP, says it is playing politics over relief work
GJ REPORT
X-CUSE ME PLZ...!
SHEKHAR
RAMBAN/BANDIPORA,
NOV 21: Hitting out at her
party's estranged ally
National Conference (NC)
for the first time in the past
six years, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today
said "we gave full support
to them to run the government but they did not
implement our programmes
and schemes", including the
Food Bill, in the state.
"We gave full support to
them (NC) to run the government (in Jammu and
Kashmir), but they did not
implement our programmes
and schemes (in the state),"
Congress president Sonia Gandhi flanked by senior leaders waving at public rally in Ramban on Friday.
(UNI)
Sonia told a public rally
held here in support of
party candidate Ashok
Kumar.
Flanked by Leader of
Opposition in the Rajya
Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad,
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LET’S UPDATE OURSELVES WITH ELECTORAL FACTS
Today's Constituencies
15-PATTAN & 26-CHADOORA
Polling Date: 9th Dec 2014
DINESH NARGOTRA
JAMMU, NOV 21:
T
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.
Pattan
YEAR
1962
1967
1972
1977
1983
1987
PARTIES
(NC) NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(IND) INDEPENDENTS (2)
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(JNP) JANATA PARTY
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(IND) INDEPENDENTS
(JKP) J&K PEOPLES CONFERENCE
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
WINNERS
GHULAM MOHD BHAT ZALIB (NC)
G. R. DAR (JKN)
PROMINENT LOSERS
(UNCONTESTED)
G. Q. B. BEDAR (INC)
REGD. VOTERS
23717
26592
VOTES POLLED
--14266
PERCENTAGE
--53.65%
GULAM QADIR BHDAR (INC)
YOUSUF SHAH (IND)
29864
20121
67.38%
ABDUL RASHID SHAHEEN (JKN)
MOLVI FTIKHAR HUSSAIN ANSARI (JNP)
34370
30028
87.37%
MOLVI IFTIKHAR HUSSAIN (INC)
ABDUL AZIZ PARREY (JKN)
40093
31481
78.52%
AGA SYED MEHMOOD (JKN)
MOULVI MUSTAFA HUSSAIN (IND)
48114
39470
82.03%
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PARTIES
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(IND) INDEPENDENT (2)
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
(JNP) JANATA PARTY
(JMI) JAMAIT-I-ISLAMI
(IND) INDEPENDENT
(JKN) J&K NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(IND) INDEPENDENT (2)
(INC) INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
WINNERS
G. M. MIR (INC)
PROMINENT LOSERS
A. R. MAGREY (JKN)
REGD. VOTERS
24188
VOTES POLLED
13861
PERCENTAGE
57.31%
GHULAM MUSTIFFA MIR (INC)
SAMAD DAR (IND)
27119
23749
87.57%
ABDUL SAMAD MIR (JKN)
MIR GHULAM MUSTAFA (INC)
29306
22761
77.67%
ABDUL SAMAD (JKN)
MIR MUSTAFFA (IND)
37314
27044
72.48%
Chadoora
YEAR
1967
1972
1977
1983
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CMYK
They said a youth hurled a hand
grenade when PDP candidate for
Noorabad constituency Abdul Majid
Paddr was addressing an election rally
at village Gandwani. However, the
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