{"id":315635,"date":"2019-10-13T11:29:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T11:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315635"},"modified":"2019-10-13T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T11:29:40","slug":"maharashtra-assembly-elections-pm-modi-dares-opposition-to-bring-back-article-370-in-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-assembly-elections-pm-modi-dares-opposition-to-bring-back-article-370-in-jk\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra assembly elections: PM Modi dares opposition to bring back Article 370 in J&#038;K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315637 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_20191013-144107__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1011\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_20191013-144107__01.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_20191013-144107__01-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_20191013-144107__01-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_20191013-144107__01-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_20191013-144107__01-696x497.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_20191013-144107__01-588x420.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1011px) 100vw, 1011px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday challenged the opposition for objecting the government&#8217;s move on abrogating Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Addressing a rally in Maharashtra&#8217;s Jalgaon district to campaign for the BJP for the upcoming state polls, Modi said Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were not just a piece of land, but the crown of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He challenged the opposition, if they have guts to take clear stand on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;I challenge the opposition. If you have the courage to take a clear stand on Jammu and Kashmir Ladakh&#8230; declare it in your manifesto that Articles 370 and 35a&#8230; that we have abrogated &#8212; I challenge you, if you have guts, to put it in your manifesto to bring it back,&#8221; Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cThe situation in Jammu and Kashmir would normalise within four months. \u201cWe have taken steps for security. We are working to bring the situation to normal,\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Modi said that the government\u2019s decision on August 5 to abrogate Article 370 was a historic one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The prime minister said he has come to Maharashtra to seek people&#8217;s support to once again vote for Devendra Fadnavis as chief minister in the upcoming assembly elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Maharashtra will go to polls on October 21. The counting of votes will take place on October 24.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday challenged the opposition for objecting the government&#8217;s move on abrogating Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing a rally in Maharashtra&#8217;s Jalgaon district to campaign for the BJP for the upcoming state polls, Modi said Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were not just a piece of land, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[3350,453,236,1467,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315635"}],"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=315635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315638,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315635\/revisions\/315638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}