The Congress on Sunday said it will ensure closure of all sanitary landfills in Delhi in two years if elected to power in Delhi municipal bodies.

At an event organised by Congress at the Gazipur landfill site, former Union Environment Minster Jairam Ramesh termed the presence of such sites in the national capital as a "disgrace" not only for the incumbent government but also for the society as a whole.

While accepting the magnitude of trash generated by a city as populous as Delhi (approximately 9,000 metric tonnes daily), he said that more than 40 per cent or 3,600 metric tonnes of this waste goes untreated.

He said efficient waste management system including proper segregation and composting needs to be deployed in Delhi at the earliest, and added that households will be given free blue and green bins for waste segregation.

"The Congress-led municipal corporations will build a mechanism to transport biodegradable waste to the local compost machine which will then be converted into fertiliser bringing down the amount of waste going to landfill sites," he said.

Ramesh said that Congress-run civic bodies will strictly adhere to the revised Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. 

"Keeping up with the best practices, the municipal bodies will follow the 5-R concept for waste-management, that is, reduce, reuse, recover, recycle and re-manufacture," the former Minister added.

He said he made efforts for closing the landfills located in Narela-Bawana, Bhalaswa, Okhla and Ghazipur localities during his tenure as the Union Environment Minster. But all directives sent by his Ministry fell on deaf ears in the BJP-ruled civic bodies. 

Accompanied by the local Congress leaders and the candidate, Ramesh also erected a flag bearing "Mission Zero Landfill Delhi" on the giant waste mountain.
 

A section of intellectuals in Bengal on Sunday held a meeting condemning a BJP youth leader's offer of bounty for beheading Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the armed processions brought out by Hindu rightwing organisations on the occasion of Ram Navmi.

Poets, singers and educationists gathered at the base of Mahatma Gandhi's statue in the Maidan area and appealed to the people to maintain peace and communal amity and unite against the rising fundamentalism in the country.

Sharply criticising the Hindu hardline outfits, Academy award winning poet Subodh Sarkar said: "The way even teenage boys and girls were handed over weapons and made to walk on the streets, that's very dangerous."

Sarkar announced that a rally would be taken out by the intellectuals from the city cultural hub College Street in the next few days in protest against efforts to polarise society on the basis of religion.

Academician Pradip Narayan Ghosh said some outfits were trying to get votes by using religion. "This is incorrect politics."

Singer Pratul Mukhopadhyay, referring to the bounty offered by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha leader Yogesh Varshney for Banerjee's head after police clashed with people taking part in a Hanuman Jayanti rally in West Bengal's Birbhum district, said: "But I feel when such fatwas are issued, it only shows that we are treading the right path." 

Indian Statistical Institute professor Abhiroop Sarkar said one fundamentalist force cannot be the answer to another such force. "It is unfortunate that we are seeing the rise of fundamentalism in opposition to another brand of fundamentalism."

Celebrated poet Nirendranath Chakraborty and writer and indologist Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri sent messages expressing solidarity with the cause of the meeting.

Taking a swipe at the meeting, Bharatiya Janata Party leader and actor George Baker dubbed them as "appendages of the state's ruling Trinamool Congress".

"When so many rape cases were taking place, then except a couple of them who took out candle light processions, the others were not seen on the streets. Now because Ram Navmi processions have attracted thousands of people, they are expressing annoyance."

More than 150 new words and terms related to politics and economy have been translated into the Tibetan language, officials in northwest China said on Sunday.

Qinghai Province's Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee said the 154 words and terms related to politics, economy and technology such as "e-commerce," "car-hailing app," "digital economy" and "Internet plus" have been translated into Tibetan.

"It is important that we translate new words and terms into accurate Tibetan," committee official Me-Tsering said.

"So that new words can be used and understood," state-run Xinhua news agency quoted him as saying.

Qinghai, adjacent to the Tibet Autonomous Region, started a project to collect and translate new vocabulary in 1999.

About 8,100 emerging words and terms have been translated since the project began. Tibetan is one of the most ancient languages dating back to the seventh century.

Beside Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetan-speaking people also live in parts of Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu provinces.

The defeat of the ISIS in Syria is only a matter of time, but there is a need for a security situation that is conducive to reconstruction in the war-torn country, a top US official said on Sunday.

US national security adviser H R McMaster said the forces who will take over after the defeat of ISIS will be critical for establishing security and legitimacy of the population in the country.

It is a matter of time only until ISIS is defeated there (in Syria), said McMaster, who is currently in Afghanistan.

What's going to be really critical though is what forces can then establish enduring security in those regions that have a legitimacy with the population, that are representative of the population, that can set conditions for reconstruction to begin, he told ABC News in an interview.

McMaster said the US was now supporting partner forces in Syria in certain parts of the country, including the northeastern part along the Euphrates river valley.

"The cities of the Sunni Arab world in that region are in rubble. And so in a very successful conference in Washington two weeks ago, the United States State Department organised a bunch of donors and like-minded allies, part of coalition to pledge money for reconstruction," he said.

"But what we need now is we need a security situation that's conducive to that reconstruction, that can allow so many of these displaced people and refugees to return. And for those long-suffering people to enjoy the security, stability, that they deserve, McMaster said.

War in Syria has killed more than 320,000 people since it began with protests in 2011 that were brutally repressed.

It has involved jihadist groups as well as regional and international powers in a complex multi-sided conflict.

The fighting has caused millions to flee their homes and triggered a major humanitarian and refugee crisis.

Two spectators died, one of them gored by a bull, and 80 persons were injured in the 'jallikattu' (bull taming) sport at M Pudur area of the district on Sunday police said.

32-year-old Thirunavakarau, an engineering graduate, died on the spot after he was attacked by the bull, while another man "died of shock" when another bull ran towards him.

The bull dashed into the barricade, behind which the man was standing. Out of shock, he suffered a cardiac arrest, collapsed and died on the spot, police said.

A total of 80 persons, mostly bull tamers, were injured in the event, they said.

Most of the injured were treated as outpatients at the medical outpost set up at the venue, while a few others were hospitalised.

Besides this, five persons were injured in a clash between two groups of bull tamers over the reported wrong announcement of the prize winners by the organisers.

Most of the prizes, including motorbikes, were damaged in the violence, police said.

Ten persons have been detained in connection with the clash, they added.

An Indian Air Force (IAF) team is embarking upon an expedition to climb Mt Dhaulagiri, the seventh-highest mountain in the world, in Nepal, a defence release said on Sunday.

"A team of twelve IAF mountaineers led by Gp Capt RC Tripathi, would attempt to summit the peak," it said.

The expedition will be carried out from from April 15 to June 3. 

"Keeping the spirit of its motto ‘Touch the Sky with Glory', IAF is poised to hoist the national and IAF flag on summit of this mountain," the release said.

In 2005, IAF, in its first-ever mountaineering expedition, climbed Mt Everest and again in 2011, IAF's all women expedition team climbed it.

Mt Dhaulagiri, with height of 8,167 metres (26,795 feet), is the last peak to be conquered among the peaks above 8,000 metres.

A Trinamool Congress block president was shot dead and two others were injured inside a party office at Bagula in Nadia district by a gang of gunmen this evening, police said.

Dulal Biswas (52), Hanskhali block Trinamool Congress president and Bagula gram panchayat pradhan, was inside Bagula party office holding a meeting.

At around 8 PM, a gang of gunmen barged into the party office, fired at Biswas and fled, police said.

When he was taken to a hospital, he was declared dead on arrival.

Two other injured persons were hospitalised, police said.

District Trinamool president Ujwal Biswas alleged that BJP and CPI(M) were behind the murder.

The Delhi unit of Congress on Sunday accused the Centre of being "complacent" in taking acting against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and others who were "indicted" by the Shunglu Committee as it alleged the BJP of trying to "protect" his government.

Delhi unit president of Congress Ajay Maken, accompanied by other partymen, observed 'Maun Vrat' at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial Rajghat to press for registration of FIR against Kejriwal and others in the matter.

The Shunglu Committee, which was formed by former Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to examine over 400 files on decisions taken by the AAP regime, had in November 2016 submitted its report to the LG office.

"Why the BJP-led central government is not taking action against those found guilty in the Shunglu Committee report and registering FIR against chief minister Kejriwal and others," Maken said after the demonstration.

The committee, headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) V K Shunglu, examined 404 files pertaining to various decisions taken by the AAP government, and its findings have "unearthed many serious cases of corruption and irregularities", he said.

He alleged that the central government was "complacent" in taking action against the guilty on the findings in the report. He adding no action has been taken so far despite the report being submitted to the Lt Governor in November last year.

"The central government is still reluctant to act on the report as the BJP is trying to protect the Kejriwal government," he claimed.

Earlier this week, a delegation of Delhi Congress led by Maken had met President Pranab Mukherjee urging his intervention in this regard.

Two coaches of a goods train derailed on Sunday near Garhmau railway station on the Jhansi-Kanpur line, disrupting rail traffic for nearly three hours.

North-Central Railway PRO Mukesh Kumar Singh said, "Around 6.05 pm, two coaches of a goods train carrying stonechips derailed near the Garhmau railway station, around 15 kms from Jhansi. Help was sent from Jhansi and normalcy was restored by 8.50 pm."

He added that the movement of five trains was affected due to the incident.

Those using triple talaq recklessly and without justification should be made to face social boycott, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) said on Sunday at the conclusion of its executive meet here.

The body, which represents major sects, also came out with a code of conduct for divorce, in case the separation becomes inevitable. It notably does not recommend instant divorce or triple talaq as a way of separation. 

"It has been decided in the executive meet that men who arbitrarily use triple talaq should face social boycott," AIMPLB member Kamal Farooqui said.

He said that the decision comes in the light of the fact that Islam deems divorce as unpleasant and its used only as the last resort. 

"We have also formulated a code of conduct for divorce, in case it becomes inevitable. We are appealing to all the imams (prayer leaders) across the country to publicise it during Friday sermons," he added.

The code of conduct put forth by the Board advocates using single talaq as a last resort if other attempts at reconciliation fail. A man can rejoin with his wife in three months after single talalq, and can remarry after three months without the woman having to go through nikah halala. 

Farooqui said that the AIMPLB is always ready to help the victims of triple talaq, but noted that is a matter of Shariah and Muslims are free to practise their religion.

"Just as it is unfair to impose Islam on the unwilling, in the same way it is unfair to force Muslims to follow laws from other religions," he said.

Farooqui said that the AIMPLB would ask parents to make it a point to give the girls their share in paternal property rather than giving fancy dowry in marriage. 

On the question of Babri Masjid dispute in which AIMPLB is also a party, Farooqui said that the body would go by the Supreme Court's verdict.

Manchester United blew open the English Premier League title race on Sunday, stunning table-topping Chelsea 2-0 in an engrossing game at Old Trafford which saw the hosts churn out a tactical masterclass.

Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, now managing Manchester United, took a major risk when he announced his line up, with star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic warming the bench, as young Marcus Rashford was chosen to lead the line.

Considering the veteran Swede had played 90 minutes in United’s UEFA Europa League draw against Anderlecht on Thursday, the decision wasn't as shocking but without their top scorer, United’s prospects looked bleak even if David de Gea made the starting XI after recovering from a hip injury.

Chelsea were forced into two changes of their own, with Asmir Begovic replacing Thibaut Courtois in goal after the latter had failed to recover from an ankle complaint and Marcos Alonso’s injury in the warm-up enabled Kurt Zouma to make a rare Premier League start.

And to the surprise of many, United began the first-half brightly and truth be told, never once relinquished their stranglehold once Rashford justified his inclusion with a well-taken goal in the 7th minute.

Barely two minutes ago, the young English striker had missed a chance to take United level, but when Ander Herrera set him up with a precise through ball, the 19-year-old finished smartly past Begovic to score his second goal in as many games. Herrera set up the chance after intercepting Nemanja Matic’s pass, the Spaniard had handled the ball, yet referee Robert Madley waved play on and the hosts pressed home their advantage.

United kept the pressure on Chelsea in both halves, constantly sending searching balls to Rashford behind Chelsea’s three-man defence, but it wasn't all long balls on Sunday, as the likes of Jesse Lingard, Rashford and Herrera were combining exceptionally well.

In fact, the excellent Herrera delivered a standout performance on Sunday, man-marking Chelsea’s danger man Eden Hazard out of the game, never letting the Belgian winger breathe for even a moment. With Hazard muted, the Blues were unable to supply Diego Costa with quality ammunition and as a result, the snarling Spaniard was forced to chase shadows and tussle with United defenders Marcos Rojo and Eric Bailly on several occasions throughout the game.

At half-time, de Gea had not been tested by the away side even once and Conte’s side were in trouble as United looked dangerous every time they broke.

And with just four minutes played in the second half, United doubled their lead via Herrera. N’Golo Kante’s tackle on Ashley Young inside the box made the ball fall into his path and the Spaniard’s first-time shot got a deflection to deceive Begovic and effectively seal the result despite having more than 40 minutes on the clock left to play.

While the 27-year-old Spaniard deservedly scooped the man-of-the-match award, Rashford had an excellent game and when Ibrahimovic replaced him near the end of the game, Old Trafford gave him a standing ovation as they lauded the young striker’s lung-bursting effort on the night.

Conte sensed his team were playing sub-par but despite sending Willian and Cesc Fabregas on, the away side failed to conjure anything of note, with de Gea a virtual spectator as United finally broke their run of 12 games without a win against Chelsea in stunning style.

The result is exactly what Chelsea were desperate to avoid, as second-placed Tottenham Hotspur have cut down the gap to just four points from 10 previously, in a span of three games. While Spurs still have the difficult fixtures of the two, the pressure is well and truly on the Blues and how they respond now may well define their season which is on the verge of imploding.

For United the result proves that they have enough quality in their squad to challenge for the top four and simultaneously pursue Europa League glory. Fourth-placed Manchester City are just four points ahead and considering Mourinho’s men have played a game less, they are very much in the hunt to make next year’s Champions League.

Prior to the game, Mourinho had stressed it was just a game but after two defeats (A 4-0 league humbling in October and a FA Cup loss in Match ) this season already, ‘The Special One’ would have been desperate for a win, which came, without a shadow of doubt, deservedly.

A kingpin of a drug cartel which used to supply drugs in Delhi and adjoining states and who was carrying a reward of Rs.50,000 on his head, has been arrested, police said on Sunday.

Police said the accused, identified as Nazir Hussain of Assam, was arrested from Anand Vihar railway station in east Delhi on Friday evening, on a tip off, as he was coming from Guwahati to Delhi.

"On questioning, Hussain told interrogators that illegal farming of opium is rampant in Northeast states like Manipur, Assam and Nagaland and the gang members have become a major source of supply of opium and heroin to Punjab via Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi," said Deputy Commissioner of Police Sanjeev Yadav.

Hussain and his associates used trucks and other heavy vehicles to avoid detection by intelligence agencies. It was also revealed that middlemen were regular customers who used to place orders on phone and pay through banks, he said. 

"The police teams earlier in last year 2016 had arrested five drug traffickers and recovered total 69 kg of high grade opium valued several crores in international market from their possession. They disclosed that they were working for Hussain," Yadav added.

Security was tightened in and around Chinnaswamy Stadium here for the IPL-10 match between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) after a bomb scare, which was later found to be a hoax, police said on Sunday.

"Security has been tightened and vigil stepped up though no bomb or any harmful object was found in a bag left at a bus stop adjacent to one of the stadium gates," Bengaluru Additional Commissioner of Police Malini Krishnamoorthy said.

Police personnel deployed at the venue went into a tizzy when an unidentified bag was found on a bench at the bus stop near VIP gate number 1 during a security drill earlier in the day. On being searched, the bag was found to contain some old clothes wrapped in newspaper.

"Someone who may have slept on the bench overnight must have left it (bag) behind or some miscreants would have tried to play mischief. The fact that it was found shows our security is in place with strict vigil," reiterated Krishnamoorthy.

The bomb scare worried the police as it reminded them of the twin bomb blasts outside the stadium on April 17, 2010 at an Indian Premier League match between RCB and Mumbai Indians (MI), in which 15 people were injured. The match was delayed by hour.

"High security is always provided for the IPL matches as thousands of fans come to the stadium and crowd management is a challenging task for us. Besides sanitising the entire venue, we make elaborate arrangements to ensure the security of fans and players," said another police official.

About 1,100 personnel from the city police, state reserve police and two teams of special forces from the state anti-terror squad are deployed around the stadium to maintain law and order and prevent any untoward incident.

"In addition to surveillance cameras installed in and around the venue, we have a bomb detection and disposal squad, and a dog squad to ensure fool-proof security," added the official.

As part of stringent security, fans are not allowed to take even handbags, water bottles, food packets, helmets, power-banks or any item with them into the stands. Special counters have been set up outside the stadium to deposit them before entering the gates.
 

A "muscular" policy will not resolve the Jammu and Kashmir issue, Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said while noting that all governments have responded to this "challenge" by deploying more troops and killing protesters.

"Every government in J-K and every government at the Centre has responded to the challenge with more warnings, more troops and more laws.

"A muscular policy will not help – tough talk by ministers, dire warnings by the Army Chief, deploying more troops or killing protesters," the former Home Minister said on Twitter.

Congress leader Digvijay Singh said that it is important to win over people of Kashmir, who were being killed both by the terrorists and the security forces and things have deteriorated in the recent past.

He claimed that the situation had normalised during the previous Congress regime, but deteriorated during the current PDP-BJP dispensation.

"Those who lost their eyes, those whose entire family were killed, they are being killed from both sides, from one side, terrorism kills them, on the other side, our forces kill them. The situation had normalised.

"From 2005-2013-14, just one year 2010-11 there was some disturbance, normal elections had started, peace had prevailed. But PDP-BJP government came and there was a sense of distrust. If you have to keep Kashmir with you, will you not keep its people with you? Will you not create trust in them or not?" Singh said.

These remarks come in the wake of continued unrest in the Kashmir valley.

Such conditions have also resulted in a poor voter turnout and violence during the recent Srinagar Lok Sabha by- elections during which at least eight people lost their lives.

The Kashmir valley has been on the boil ever since the killing of terrorist leader Burhan Wani by security forces last year.

There has been a spate of incidents involving skirmishes between locals and security forces including stone pelting incidents followed by a controversial "human shield" video that was circulated on the social media.

A video had surfaced in which a youth was allegedly tied to an army jeep as a human shield against stone pelters.

In view of the current situation in the valley, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat today apprised National Security Advisor Ajit Doval of the security situation in Kashmir, amid growing outrage in the Valley over the "human shield" video.

Rawat's meeting with Doval comes a day after he had separate deliberations with Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and Governor N N Vohra over the law and order situation during his visit to the state.

Meanwhile, normal life was today affected in the Kashmir Valley due to a strike called by separatists to protest the killing of a 23-year-old man allegedly in firing by BSF jawans in Batamaloo area of the city.

The Telangana legislature on Sunday unanimously passed a bill to hike the reservation quota for backward Muslims and the Scheduled Tribes to 12 and 10 per cent respectively.

Barring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which vehemently opposed the bill both inside and outside the legislature, the entire Opposition supported the Backward Class, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Reservation Bill, 2017.

After the assembly, the legislative council debated and passed the bill unanimously on Sunday evening.

The bill increased from the existing four per cent to 12 per cent the quota for the socially and economically backward among the Muslims under the Backward Classes (E) category, while the reservations for the Scheduled Tribes in educational institutions and government jobs go up from 6 per cent to 10 per cent.

The legislation will be sent for the President's assent with a request to include it in the Constitution's 9th Schedule as was done in the case of Tamil Nadu.

While all five members of BJP were suspended from the assembly, its lone member in council staged a walk-out.

However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement at BJP meet in Bhubaneswar in support of backwards among Muslims came handy for Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to put the party in a fix.

Speaking in the council, he welcomed the PM's statement and hoped that this will pave the way for implementation of hiked quota for backward among Muslims.

Replying to the debate, Chandrasekhar Rao said if the Centre refuses to accept Telengana's request to include the legislation in the 9th Schedule, the state would approach the Supreme Court.

"Tamil Nadu is implementing 69 per cent reservations for over two decades. Five to six states are providing more than 50 per cent reservation. How can you deny this to Telangana?" he asked.

The Supreme Court has put a cap of 50 per cent on all reservations both at the Centre and in the states.

The Chief Minister clarified that the reservations were being provided purely on the basis of socio-economic backwardness and not on the basis of religion or caste as some parties were projecting.

Terming it as a historic day, Rao said the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), had during the election campaign, promised that quota for the Backward Classes (E) and the Scheduled Tribes will be increased in proportion to their population in the state.

He assured the Backward Classes that there will be no injustice to them and quotas for them too will be increased. The state government has directed the Backward Classes Commission to submit a report within six months.

Rao also said that the reservation for SCs, who constitute 16.3 per cent of the state's population, will be increased by one per cent and the government would soon set up an SC Commission.

The SCs currently enjoy 15 per cent reservations while the BCs have a total quota of 25 per cent and the new legislation will increase the total reservations in the state to 62 per cent.

The Chief Minister argued that there is no constitutional bar on providing more than 50 per cent reservation, while noting that as 90 per cent of Telangana's population comprises Backward Classes, SCs, STs and minorities, the state definitely needed more than 50 per cent reservation.

He made it clear that he will not beg the Centre but will fight to get the new quotas included in the 9th Schedule.

KCR, as the Chief Minister is popularly known, said Telangana would raise this issue at the meeting of the Niti Aayog and in Parliament. He hoped that a debate on the issue will begin and consensus will build at the national level.

He defended the state's hike in quota for Muslims and hit back at the BJP for opposing it.

"Why can't we give them reservation? Why should they be denied reservation just because they are Muslims? Are they not part of this country? Are they not paying taxes?" he asked.

He pointed out that India has the largest Muslim community in the world and even some of the so-called Islamic countries do not have such a large Muslim population.

KCR said the promise to increase the Muslim quota was part of the TRS manifesto and people approved this agenda by giving their mandate to the party.

The AIMIM suggested to the government to take steps to protect the existing four per cent reservation while increasing the quota by eight per cent. Its member Ahmed Pasha Khadri said a new category BC (F) be created for hiked quota.

The Chief Minister, however, said there was no need for any apprehensions as there will be no threat to the existing four percent reservations.

A number of houses in Meghalaya's South West Garo Hills district have been affected by a storm that hit the region on Saturday afternoon, an official said on Sunday.

Strong winds accompanied by heavy rain lashed parts of the state, extensively damaging houses, plantations, roads and some government installations across the South West Garo Hills distict, adjoining Bangladesh, a government statement said.

Though a tally of the total number of affected households and villages was not yet available, preliminary reports given by the district police showed that a large number of houses, roads and power lines were damaged in Salmanpara, Anangpara, Purakhasia, Hulukona and Chapahati areas under Zikzak community and Rural Development Block. Besides this, some areas around Ampati, Monabari and Chiringpara under Betasing block were also affected.

Several roads were blocked by falling trees and power supply was also cut off for the entire night in the district following the storm, the statement said.

Meanwhile, the district administration has alerted the officials concerned and they have been asked to send in reports of damage to houses etc. so that reports can be processed and sent to the government for necessary action at the earliest 

District and block-level officials were already on the ground assessing the extent of damage in their respective areas.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday said civilians in Kashmir have become the target of both militants and the security forces, adding that a feeling of distrust among people has developed after the PDP-BJP government came to power.

"The civilians are being killed from both sides in Kashmir Valley. From one end, the militants are killing them and on the other, they are becoming the target of the security forces," Singh told media persons here.

"To understand what the people of Kashmir are going through, one should go there and find out. One cannot form opinions about Kashmir sitting here. Many families have lost their loved ones and many have lost their eyes too," he added.

He also said that after the Peoples Democratic Party-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government came to power in Jammu and Kashmir, a feeling of distrust has developed among the people of the Valley towards the government.

"The situation in Kashmir was improving. From 2005 to 2013-14, except for 2010-11 when there was some unrest, peace was established in the Valley, normal elections were going on," Singh said.

"But after PDP-BJP came to power, a sense of distrust among the people towards the government has developed. If you want to have Kashmir in India, then won't you also keep the people of Kashmir as well. Don't you think we should win people's confidence in Kashmir," the leader asked.