{"id":307912,"date":"2019-01-09T12:51:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T12:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307912"},"modified":"2019-01-09T12:51:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T12:51:21","slug":"kashmiri-topper-shah-faesal-quits-ias-to-join-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kashmiri-topper-shah-faesal-quits-ias-to-join-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kashmiri topper Shah Faesal quits IAS to join politics"},"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-307913 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shah-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/shah-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/shah.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kashmiri\u00a0Indian Administrative Service\u00a0(IAS)\u00a0officer\u00a0Shah Faesal, who topped the 2010 civil services exam, has quit IAS to enter politics ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTo protest the unabated killings in Kashmir and absence of any credible political initiative from Union Government, I have decided to resign from IAS. Kashmiri lives matter. I will be addressing a press-conference on Friday,\u201d Faesal tweeted.<\/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, Faesal was likely to join the National Conference from Baramulla constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">National Conference Vice President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has welcomed Shah Faesal for quitting bureaucracy and tending to join politics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe bureaucracy\u2019s loss is politics\u2019 gain. Welcome to the fold @shahfaesal,\u201d Abdullah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Faesal recently returned to India after completing his Fulbright fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School in US.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kashmiri\u00a0Indian Administrative Service\u00a0(IAS)\u00a0officer\u00a0Shah Faesal, who topped the 2010 civil services exam, has quit IAS to enter politics ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections. \u201cTo protest the unabated killings in Kashmir and absence of any credible political initiative from Union Government, I have decided to resign from IAS. Kashmiri lives matter. I will be addressing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[10545,10544,1345,3552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307912"}],"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=307912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307914,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307912\/revisions\/307914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}