{"id":315526,"date":"2019-10-09T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T09:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315526"},"modified":"2019-10-09T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T09:33:28","slug":"congress-to-boycott-jk-local-body-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-to-boycott-jk-local-body-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress to boycott J&#038;K local body election"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-300677 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/abduct.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct.jpg 781w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-696x538.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-543x420.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/>The Congress on Wednesday decided to boycott the local body election in Jammu and Kashmir to protest against the detention of leaders post abrogation of Article 370.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing a press conference, Jammu and Kashmir Congress Chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir said, \u201cdue to indifferent attitude of the state administration and continued detention of several leaders in the valley, we have no other choice left but to boycott the elections.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe will not participate in the BDC election. where are the political parties? Who is contesting these elections&#8230;? We want to contest polls, but our leaders are still under detention. The EC should have consulted political parties before announcing block development council (BDC) polls,&#8221; GA Mir said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Block development council polls will be held in Jammu and Kashmir on October 24.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Wednesday decided to boycott the local body election in Jammu and Kashmir to protest against the detention of leaders post abrogation of Article 370. Addressing a press conference, Jammu and Kashmir Congress Chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir said, \u201cdue to indifferent attitude of the state administration and continued detention of several leaders in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[236,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315526"}],"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=315526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315527,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315526\/revisions\/315527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}