Meeting Election Date 2024: Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana election dates are anticipated right this moment (File).
New Delhi:
A significant reshuffle is underway in Jammu and Kashmir Police ranks – new chiefs have been appointed to a number of districts and senior cops transferred – forward of the Meeting election anticipated subsequent month. Additionally, J&Okay Police’s Intelligence Wing could have a brand new chief.
The districts of Jammu, Ramban, Kathua, Reasi, Udhampur, Doda, and Poonch, in addition to Shopian and Ganderbal within the Kashmir Valley, will get new police chiefs. That is vital as a result of these areas have seen a worrying improve in terrorism previously weeks and months.
On Wednesday, as a matter of truth, an Military captain and a civilian had been killed, and an American-made assault rifle recovered – as forces tracked down 4 terrorists in a forested space in Doda.
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The reshuffle comes a day after senior IPS officer Nalin Prabhat was posted as Particular Director-Normal of the erstwhile state’s police pressure. His appointment is in anticipation of the retirement of his predecessor, RR Swain, who will relinquish his workplace on September 30.
This reshuffle, which incorporates adjustments in governance ranks too, additionally comes as dates for the J&Okay Meeting election – pending for almost a decade – are anticipated at 3 pm.
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Final 12 months the Election Commission had been directed by the Supreme Court docket to finish the method by September 30. The highest court docket was then listening to petitions difficult the scrapping Article 370 in August 2019, months earlier than a state election was to be held.
The court docket had dismissed the challenges however dominated that an election was to be held and the method of as soon as once more recognising J&Okay as a state was to be carried out too. J&Okay had been bifurcated into two UTs – Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh – after Article 370 was scrapped.
The Election Fee was in J&Okay final week to take inventory of ballot preparations. Addressing reporters there, EC chief Rajiv Kumar declared no inside or exterior pressure may cease the election.
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“If any inside or exterior pressure thinks they’ll intervene and derail the election… they’re incorrect. We’re certain that the folks of Jammu and Kashmir will give a befitting response to disruptive forces.”
The final J&Okay Assembly election was in 2014. The PDP of late former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and the BJP had been the large winners with 28 and 25 seats, respectively.
The Nationwide Convention of Farooq and Omar Abdullah secured 15 seats and the Congress 12, with the Left, native events, and impartial candidates choosing up the remaining seats.
In a shocking flip of occasions the PDP and the BJP joined fingers to kind the federal government. That was the primary time the saffron occasion was a member of a ruling coalition in J&Okay.
Nevertheless, 4 years later there was hassle. The PDP, now led by Mehbooba Mufti following her father Mufti Mohammed Sayeed’s demise, withdrew from the coalition citing a number of causes, together with an upsurge in terrorism within the Valley. The BJP slammed the “untenable” alliance.
J&Okay was then positioned below Governor’s Rule, wherein standing it has remained since.
In the meantime, the Election Fee can also be anticipated to announce ballot dates for Haryana, the place the BJP is in energy. The occasion eased to energy within the 2019 election, because of assist from Dushyant Chautala’s JJP. Nevertheless, the 2 fell out forward of the final election earlier this 12 months.
Haryana’s 10 Lok Sabha seats had been divided equally between the Congress and the BJP, suggesting this Meeting election may very well be tighter than the final.
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