{"id":310780,"date":"2019-03-23T12:19:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T12:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310780"},"modified":"2019-03-23T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T12:19:01","slug":"shah-faesal-to-skip-upcoming-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shah-faesal-to-skip-upcoming-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Shah Faesal to skip upcoming Lok Sabha polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-307913 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shah-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/shah-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/shah.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Former IAS topper-turned-politician Shah Faesal who recently floated a new political party J&amp;K People&#8217;s Movement has decided against contesting the\u00a0 upcoming Parliament polls in the state.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Faesal held a press conference in Srinagar today to announce his party&#8217;s decision. He said he will work to strengthen the party in the state before taking a plunge into the electoral process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Earlier this year, Faesal had resigned from his job to float a new party. He has since held two political rallies, one in Kupwara and one in Srinagar on the day of launching his party. Both of his rallies drew large crowds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Faesal has so far plied a middle of the road politics that mainly focusses on the good governance and the development of the state. He has said that the dispute over J&amp;K was there to solve between India and Pakistan and that the Kashmiri parties didn&#8217;t have a role beyond facilitating and supporting a Kashmir solution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former IAS topper-turned-politician Shah Faesal who recently floated a new political party J&amp;K People&#8217;s Movement has decided against contesting the\u00a0 upcoming Parliament polls in the state.\u00a0\u00a0 Faesal held a press conference in Srinagar today to announce his party&#8217;s decision. He said he will work to strengthen the party in the state before taking a plunge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":307913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[3552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310780"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310781,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310780\/revisions\/310781"}],"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=310780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}