The former J-K chief minister, however, said the Election Commission has to hold the assembly polls before the Supreme Court's deadline of September 30.
Known to consume watermelons in good quantity in the month of Ramadan, the people in Kashmir have mostly avoided the fruit this time after a social media storm was triggered over claims by some doctors that chemicals and adulterants were being used to ripen and enhance their colour.
The meteorological centre in Srinagar said that the summer capital Srinagar recorded a maximum temperature of 17.4 degree Celsius, some 2.7 degree notches above normal. The day temperatures were mostly above normal while the preceding night was cold across Kashmir on Friday.
Meeting was chaired by NC vice-president Omar Abdullah, who sought opinion from senior leaders about the prospective candidates from the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat
While sharing a purpoted video of a protest in Shopian village against alleged “takeover of an orchard for a railway project”, Mehbooba said that building railway lines through Kashmir without taking ecological impact into consideration was fraught with dire consequences