The Latest Breaking News from Jammu

In this episode of Another Election Show, Manisha Pande and Atul Chaurasia reached Jammu to understand the issues of the locals, particularly the youth, ahead of the third phase of polling in Jammu and Kashmir. 

As the 2nd phase of polling began in J&K on Wednesday, people in several parts of the territory were seen in long queues, waiting for their turn to cast their votes. Read further on Dynamite News:

This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Anmol Pritam.

Indian-administered Kashmir votes on Wednesday in the first local elections since the cancellation of its special semi-autonomous status sparked fury in the troubled Himalayan territory, which is also claimed by Pakistan.

Jobs, inflation, and statehood have turned out to be the biggest poll issues in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, which has three assembly seats and around 60 percent Muslim population. 

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh on Monday reached Jammu and Kashmir to campaign for his party. Read further on Dynamite News:

In the 2014 assembly elections, when Jammu and Kashmir was still a state, the Bharatiya Janata Party got its highest tally of 25 out of 37 assembly seats. In 2019, the region lost its autonomy and was cleaved into two demoted union territories (Ladakh not having an elected assembly).

Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, has been the talk of the town ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. The Kashmiri politician, in jail for over five years in a terror funding case, won the Baramulla seat in the Lok Sabha polls with a big margin…

The assembly elections have brought political excitement back to Jammu and Kashmir.