{"id":314613,"date":"2019-08-13T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T08:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314613"},"modified":"2019-08-13T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T08:43:32","slug":"not-aircraft-need-freedom-to-travel-rahul-gandhis-reply-to-governor-satya-pal-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/not-aircraft-need-freedom-to-travel-rahul-gandhis-reply-to-governor-satya-pal-malik\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not aircraft, need freedom to travel&#8217;: Rahul Gandhi\u2019s reply to Governor Satya Pal Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300436 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul.jpg 708w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-696x702.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-416x420.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday responded to Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik by saying, that he, along with a delegation of opposition leaders will take up his \u2018gracious invitation\u2019 of flying to the state to take stock of the situation provided they are given the freedom to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u201cDear Governor Malik, A delegation of opposition leaders &amp; I will take you up on your gracious invitation to visit J&amp;K and Ladakh. We won\u2019t need an aircraft but please ensure us the freedom to travel &amp; meet the people, mainstream leaders and our soldiers stationed over there,\u201d Rahul said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul\u2019s response came a day after Malik invited him to visit the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, Governor Malik hit out at Rahul Gandhi for his remarks that there had been reports of violence in Jammu and Kashmir in protest against the government&#8217;s move to end special status and split the state into two union territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Malik said he will send Rahul an aircraft to visit the valley and observe the ground situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I have invited Rahul Gandhi to come here. I will send you a plane, to observe (the situation) and then speak up. You are a responsible person and you should not speak like this,&#8221; Malik said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The state has been under lockdown since the Central government had last week scrapped Article 370 which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir and divided Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh into two union territories.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday responded to Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik by saying, that he, along with a delegation of opposition leaders will take up his \u2018gracious invitation\u2019 of flying to the state to take stock of the situation provided they are given the freedom to do so. \u00a0\u201cDear Governor Malik, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[579,4366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314613"}],"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=314613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314614,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314613\/revisions\/314614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}