{"id":301718,"date":"2018-08-22T06:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T06:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301718"},"modified":"2018-08-22T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:13:07","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-bjp-worker-shot-dead-by-terrorists-in-pulwama-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-bjp-worker-shot-dead-by-terrorists-in-pulwama-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: BJP worker shot dead by terrorists in Pulwama district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301721 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shabir-BJP-1-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/shabir-BJP-1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/shabir-BJP-1-696x562.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/shabir-BJP-1-520x420.jpg 520w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/shabir-BJP-1.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/>A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, Shabir Ahmed Bhat, was shot dead by\u00a0terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s\u00a0Pulwana district on Wednesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bhat was killed by terrorists at around 2:30 am in Rakh-e-litter village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bhat was BJP constituency president for the Pulwama district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the officials, Bhat was kidnapped on Tuesday evening\u00a0from between a bus stand and BJP office in the area, after which a massive manhunt was launched to track him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union minister of State for Development of North Eastern Regions, Dr. Jitendra Singh condoled Bhat&#8217;s death,\u00a0&#8220;Deeply shocked by the saddening act of extreme cowardice by terrorists, who barged into the house of Bharatiya Janata Party #BJP worker Shabir Ahmed Bhat in Pulwama, J&amp;K, and shot him dead in the wee hours today,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP party president Amit Shah while reacting on the killing of the party worker said, that the sacrifice won&#8217;t go in vain, calling it an &#8220;act of cowardice.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, Shabir Ahmed Bhat, was shot dead by\u00a0terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s\u00a0Pulwana district on Wednesday morning. Bhat was killed by terrorists at around 2:30 am in Rakh-e-litter village. Bhat was BJP constituency president for the Pulwama district. As per the officials, Bhat was kidnapped on Tuesday evening\u00a0from between a bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1194,1885,453,4338,1141,4337,4336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301747,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301718\/revisions\/301747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}