{"id":304830,"date":"2018-10-30T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304830"},"modified":"2018-10-30T05:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:15:06","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-municipality-office-set-on-fire-in-shopian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-municipality-office-set-on-fire-in-shopian\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Municipality office set on fire in Shopian"},"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=\" wp-image-304831 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fire--300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Fire--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Fire--768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Fire--696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Fire--747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Fire-.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A municipality office in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s terror-hit Shopian district was set on fire by unidentified people on Monday evening, days after the controversial local body elections held in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, most of the building was gutted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) had emerged victorious in four districts of south Kashmir by winning 53 of the 132 wards. The party won 13 of the municipality&#8217;s 17 seats unopposed in Shopian as both contestants and voters chose to stay away from the elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per election officials, no nominations were received for the four remaining seats.<\/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 (NC) and the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), boycotted the civic body polls over the contentious issue of Article 35A and Separatists leaders too had called for the boycott of the polls which resulted in there were many uncontested winners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A municipality office in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s terror-hit Shopian district was set on fire by unidentified people on Monday evening, days after the controversial local body elections held in the state. According to the sources, most of the building was gutted. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) had emerged victorious in four districts of south Kashmir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,9083,4339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304830"}],"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=304830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304832,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304830\/revisions\/304832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}