{"id":302967,"date":"2018-09-19T13:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302967"},"modified":"2018-09-19T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:23:33","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-congress-decides-to-take-part-in-panchayat-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-congress-decides-to-take-part-in-panchayat-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Congress decides to take part in panchayat polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-congress-decides-to-take-part-in-panchayat-polls\/ga-mir\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302968\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302968 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GA-Mir-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/GA-Mir-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/GA-Mir-382x420.jpg 382w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/GA-Mir.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0Congress\u00a0on Wednesday announced that it will participate in the upcoming municipal and panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the media, Congress President of Jammu and Kashmir GA Mir said that his party had decided to take part in the polls to &#8220;keep the communal forces away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe will not stay away from the elections, we will contest in it with full might and keep away the communal forces,\u201d Mir said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mir in an earlier statement had said that the situation was not favourable for holding elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The National Conference and the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) \u2013 have announced a boycott and decided to stay away from the polls citing the central government\u2019s stand on Article 35-A, which gives special status to the citizens of J&amp;K.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Panchayat polls in Jammu and Kashmir are scheduled from November 17 to December 11 while municipal elections\u00a0for the two corporations of\u00a0Srinagar\u00a0and Jammu and 77 municipal committees are being held in October.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Congress\u00a0on Wednesday announced that it will participate in the upcoming municipal and panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir, reports said. Addressing the media, Congress President of Jammu and Kashmir GA Mir said that his party had decided to take part in the polls to &#8220;keep the communal forces away.\u201d \u201cWe will not stay away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[236,5151,1141,1485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302967"}],"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=302967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302970,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302967\/revisions\/302970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}