National Conference wins from Hazratbal

June 3rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Low voter turnout was witnessed in the Hazratbal assembly constituency here for which the balloting began early Wednesday amid shutdown and protests over the alleged rape and murder of two women last week. A few voters were seen outside various polling booths in the constituency for which by-poll was necessitated after National Conference president Farooq Abdullah quit the state assembly to contest Lok Sabha elections.

June 3rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Polling for the by-poll elections to the Hazratbal Assembly seat in Jammu and Kashmir began at 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning amid tight security.

May 23rd, 2009 JAMMU - The 10-member council of ministers in Jammu and Kashmir will be expanded in the second week of June, official sources said Saturday. The sources said that the cabinet expansion will take place after the June 3 assembly by-election at Hazratbal constituency in Srinagar.

May 17th, 2009 JAMMU - Three of the six newly elected MPs from Jammu and Kashmir had lost the assembly polls last year. National Conference leader Mehboob Beg who won south Kashmir constituency Anantnag had lost to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed at Anantnag in the November-December assembly elections.

May 1st, 2009 SRINAGAR - By-election in the Hazratbal assembly constituency of summer capital Srinagar will be held May 30, the Election Commission announced here Friday evening. Talking to mediapersons, Election Commissioner S.Y.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Thursday said the by-poll in Kashmir's Hazratbal assembly constituency will be held May 30. The by-election was earlier scheduled to be held May 7 but the notification was cancelled last week after 'improper acceptance' of nomination form of a National Conference candidate.

April 27th, 2009 SRINAGAR - People's Democratic Party (PDP) supporters took to streets on Monday to protest against the cancellation of an Election Commission (EC) notification for holding bye-polls in the Hazratbal parliamentary constituency. Chanting slogans against the National Conference-led state government and the EC, PDP activists marched through the streets of Srinagar, to voice their anger at the EC's decision.

April 24th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) Friday criticised the Election Commission's decision to rescind the by-poll notification for the Hazratbal assembly constituency in the Kashmir Valley. Addressing a media conference here, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said: 'The EC (Election Commission) decision to annul the poll notification for the Hazratbal assembly constituency is aimed at helping the National Conference (NC) candidate whose nomination papers were accepted by the returning officer in violation of the rules.' The election to the Hazratbal assembly seat was to be held May 7 to coincide with the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha polls in the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat but the orders were rescinded by the Election Commission Thursday evening.

April 23rd, 2009 New Delhi, April 23 The Election Commission Thursday announced its decision to cancel the by-poll in Kashmir's Hazratbal assembly constituency after 'improper acceptance' of nomination form of a National Conference candidate. 'There has been (an) improper acceptance of the nomination of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference candidate by the returning officer,' Deputy Election Commissioner R.Balakrishnan told reporters here.

April 13th, 2009 SRINAGAR - National Conference (NC) patron Farooq Abdullah Monday said that he would file his nomination to contest from the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat along with another party leader, Salman Sagar. 'I and Salman Sagar, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation chairman, shall file nominations for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat,' Farooq Abdullah said at a press conference here.

April 13th, 2009 SRINAGAR - National Conference on Monday suggested its President Farooq Abdullah and Srinagar Municipal Corporation Chairman Salman Sagar for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat. Talking to reporters here, Farooq Abdullah said that the final decision on who would contest the Srinagar seat rests on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

March 14th, 2009 JAMMU - The National Conference (NC) and the Congress have reached an agreement to share seats for by-elections in Jammu and Kashmir, necessitated after two former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad vacated their assembly seats on being elected to the Rajya Sabha. The NC will contest two of the three assembly seats going to polls.

March 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - By-polls to three assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir will be held April 23 and May 7, the Election Commission said here Tuesday. By-polls in the Hazratbal, Sonawar and Bhaderwah assembly constituencies were necessitated after National Conference's Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress, who were elected from these seats, resigned after getting elected to the Rajya Sabha.

December 27th, 2008 SRINAGAR - National Conference patron and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah has won the Hazratbal seat from Srinagar. As the results of the staggered Jammu and Kashmir elections came in, the National Conference appears to be emerging as the single largest party, the status it held in the 2002 elections.

December 27th, 2008 JAMMU/SRINAGAR - The National Conference Sunday was emerging as the single largest party in Jammu and Kashmir as counting trends pointed to a hung legislative assembly in the state once again. Votes were being counted in various district headquarters across the state for the 87-member assembly.