Analysis | National Conference possibly divided over electoral tie-up within Gupkar alliance
The Hindu
NC leaders have stepped up attacks on PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti.
Senior National Conference (NC) leader Shameema Firdous on Tuesday targeted Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and Gupkar alliance partner Mehbooba Mufti for the second time in 10 days, hinting at the party’s unwillingness to forge any electoral ties with the PDP and projecting Ms. Mufti as an ideological opponent.
Ms. Firdous, a top-ranking leader of the NC who is considered close to both Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, in her public speech in north Kashmir’s Handwara, was vitriolic against Ms. Mufti and her party, blaming them for the “current mess.”

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











