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Lok Sabha polls in the Jammu & Kashmir UT is scheduled in phases, the first five being on April 19 (Udhampur), April 26 (Jammu), May 7 (Anantnag-Rajouri), May 13 (Srinagar) and May 20 (Baramulla).

Jammu and Kashmir has suffered and is suffering the way it has suffered never before. The mistrust is on the rise and is growing day after day. People have lost all hope in Democratic Institutions.

Jammu, Dec 18 (PTI) The leaders of various political parties held a meeting here on Monday and later staged a demonstration, demanding immediate restoration of statehood, assembly elections and extension of Article 371 to Jammu and Kashmir. The political parties, including the Shiv Sena (UBT), National Panthers Party (NPP) and Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party (DSSP), also highlighted their demand for deportation of illegally settled immigrants, early return and settlement of the Kas...

This was the first such demonstration in Jammu after the Supreme Court on December 11 upheld the abrogation of Article 370 by the Centre in August 2019

SRINAGAR:A One-Day Seminar on “Reclaiming the Lost Identity of Jammu” was organized by the Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party in Jammu. Speaking on the occasion, Ch Lal Singh, Chairperson, Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan, in his presidential remarks stressed that people from all the regions of Jammu incl...

Part XXI, read with Article 371, provides special protection and privileges mostly to tribals in Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, Sikkim, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Goa and Karnataka

Provisions under Article 371 of the Constitution protect tribal communities and cultures, and grant some autonomy to states of the North East.

The fundamental rift between Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s perception of “normalcy” and the people’s view is that, while Kashmir may have been captured, the Kashmiris have been alienated.

Apart from the Sixth Schedule, the Government of India should further empower the Hynniewtrep land by the introduction of Article 371 (A) & (G) as was done in the state of Nagaland and Mizoram, KSU president Lambokstar Marngar said.