{"id":302283,"date":"2018-09-05T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302283"},"modified":"2018-09-05T12:39:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:39:54","slug":"national-conference-to-boycott-jk-panchayat-local-body-polls-cites-article-35-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/national-conference-to-boycott-jk-panchayat-local-body-polls-cites-article-35-a\/","title":{"rendered":"National Conference to boycott J&#038;K Panchayat, Local Body Polls, cites Article 35 A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300443 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah-696x513.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah-570x420.jpg 570w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The National Conference on September 5 said that it will boycott the upcoming panchayat and local body polls in Jammu and Kashmir unless the Centre and state government clear their stand on Article 35 A, which provides special rights to the restive state\u2019s citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">NC president and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah said, \u201cThe core group (of NC) unanimously decided that the National Conference will not participate in these elections unless and until the government of India and state government clear their position in the regard and take effective steps for the protection of Article 35A in and outside court, the NC will not participate in the elections,\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Party president Abdullah said that the decision of the state administration to hold urban local body elections and panchayat elections was taken in a \u201churried manner\u201d and without taking into consideration the prevailing situation \u201ccreated by the powers that be by unnecessarily fiddling with Article 35-A\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe role of central government and present dispensation in the state before the Supreme court is against the wishes and aspirations of the people of the state,\u201d Abdullah added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The State Administrative Council, headed by Governor Satya Pal Malik, on August 30 announced the schedule for local body polls as well as Panchayat polls. Local body elections in the state will be conducted in four phases between October 1, 2018 and October 5, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, elections to Panchayats will be conducted in eight phases between November 8, 2018 and 4th December, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Conference on September 5 said that it will boycott the upcoming panchayat and local body polls in Jammu and Kashmir unless the Centre and state government clear their stand on Article 35 A, which provides special rights to the restive state\u2019s citizens. NC president and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah said, \u201cThe core [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[3349,4770,3661,1141,4771,2538,4667],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302283"}],"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=302283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302284,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302283\/revisions\/302284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}