{"id":311995,"date":"2019-05-05T04:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T04:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311995"},"modified":"2019-05-05T04:52:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T04:52:32","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-bjp-leader-shot-dead-by-militants-in-anantnag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-bjp-leader-shot-dead-by-militants-in-anantnag\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: BJP leader shot dead by militants in Anantnag"},"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-299838 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-487x420.jpg 487w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Militants on Saturday shot dead a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Anantnag district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Identified as Gul Muhammad Mir, he was the BJP&#8217;s district vice president.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mir who had contested assembly elections on a BJP ticket from Anantnag was killed inside his house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP leaders said that Mir\u2019s security was recently withdrawn by the government.<\/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 reports, unknown militants fired upon Mir at Nowgam Verinag.\u00a0He was taken to a hospital in critical condition where he succumbed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The security forces have cordoned off the area to catch the suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah took to his twitter account and tweeted, \u201cGhulam Mohd Mir, office bearer of the BJP in South Kashmir has been shot &amp; killed in Nowgam, Verinag. I condemn this dastardly act of violence &amp; pray for the soul of the departed, Allah Jannat naseeb karey.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cGul Mohd Mir was the District Vice President of the BJP state unit. May his family &amp; loved ones find strength at this difficult time,\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;\">PDP president Mehbooba Mufti also condemned the killing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI strongly condemn the killing of @BJP4India leader Gul Muhammad Mir in Verinag, South Kashmir. My condolences to the bereaved family and prayers for the departed soul,\u201d Mehbooba tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants on Saturday shot dead a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Anantnag district. Identified as Gul Muhammad Mir, he was the BJP&#8217;s district vice president.\u00a0 Mir who had contested assembly elections on a BJP ticket from Anantnag was killed inside his house. BJP leaders said that Mir\u2019s security was recently withdrawn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[2581,11315,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311995"}],"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=311995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311997,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311995\/revisions\/311997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}