Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 31 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party founder and senior leader Bhim Singh passed away in Jammu on Tuesday.

New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (NPP) chief and former education minister Harshdev Singh joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in New Delhi today.

Jammu Oct 31 PTI The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party JKNPP on Sunday accused the BJP of using money and muscle power to break opposition parties in the union territory after several leaders joined the BJP in the past few weeks The NPP claimed that it was also being targeted by the BJP and many of its leaders and workers were being seduced or being threatened to quit Dozens of prominent leaders including former National Conference legislators Devender Singh Rana S S Slathia Prem Sagar Aziz and Kamal Arora have joined the BJP along with hundreds of their supporters recently While several opposition leaders are falling in the lap of BJP one by one it is only a handful of leaders who are putting up a brave fight against the dictatorial and anti-people policies of the present authoritarian regime The BJP is resorting to coercion threats intimidation offers and allurements to break the opposition parties in a bid to establish its monopoly in the political landscape of JK NPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh said addressing a rally in Udhampur district He said it is astonishing to note the opposition leaders in Jammu are abandoning their respective parties on a regular basis and embracing the BJP which they had termed anti-Jammu in the past Singh claimed that many of his party leaders and workers were being seduced or being threatened to quit the party We will stand with the people through thick and thin and continue to expose the BJP for all its acts of subterfuge and political blasphemy as only a selected few were left on the political turf to oppose BJP he saidPTI TAS SMN SMN

Jammu Oct 17 PTI The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party JKNPP on Sunday condemned the recent killings of civilians and security personnel in attacks by terrorists and said the BJP government is responsible for the worsening situation in the union territory NPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh said the fast deteriorating security scenario in J-K has exposed the haughty and supercilious claims of the BJP government at the Centre of having curbed militancy post reorganisation of the erstwhile state With the situation in J-K fast reverting to early 1990s it was most disturbing to find the BJP busy in breaking opposition parties and luring the opposition leaders rather than focusing on Pakistan-sponsored terrorism he said apparently referring to the joining of National Conference provincial president Devender Singh Rana and his party colleague S S Slathia to the saffron party Accusing the BJP government of giving precedence to its political ambitions over its duties and obligations as a responsible dispensation Singh said The BJPs ambitions have lit fires which will take years and years to subside With highly ascendant and authoritarian BJP hell-bent to crush and demolish all opposition in J-K it was using all possible means to silence all voices critical of its policies the NPP leader alleged He claimed the BJP was using all possible means to suppress other political parties and to make their leaders fall in line Opposition leaders were being bullied harassed threatened intimidated and persecuted with several lucrative offers also being reportedly made to such leaders for jettisoning their respective parties and joining the BJP And all this was being shamelessly executed at a time when the J-K UT was passing through the worst phase of ethnic cleansing selective killings and terrorism exported from across the border Singh said He said while the killings of innocents in J-K is being used by the BJP leadership as a mere occasion to condemn Pakistan and promote communal hatred it has utterly failed in fulfilling its grandiloquent promises of restoring peace and normalcy in the troubled union territory PTI TAS AQS AQS