{"id":344154,"date":"2023-06-14T09:08:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=344154"},"modified":"2023-06-15T03:47:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:17:46","slug":"bjp-afraid-of-holding-assembly-polls-in-jk-omer-abdullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-afraid-of-holding-assembly-polls-in-jk-omer-abdullah\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP afraid of holding Assembly polls in J&#038;K: Omer Abdullah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BJP-afraid-of-holding-Assembly-polls-in-JK-Omer-Abdullah-1024x637.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/BJP-afraid-of-holding-Assembly-polls-in-JK-Omer-Abdullah-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/BJP-afraid-of-holding-Assembly-polls-in-JK-Omer-Abdullah-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/BJP-afraid-of-holding-Assembly-polls-in-JK-Omer-Abdullah-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/BJP-afraid-of-holding-Assembly-polls-in-JK-Omer-Abdullah-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/BJP-afraid-of-holding-Assembly-polls-in-JK-Omer-Abdullah-696x433.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/BJP-afraid-of-holding-Assembly-polls-in-JK-Omer-Abdullah-1068x665.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/BJP-afraid-of-holding-Assembly-polls-in-JK-Omer-Abdullah-675x420.jpg 675w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/BJP-afraid-of-holding-Assembly-polls-in-JK-Omer-Abdullah.jpg 1480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The NC leader and&nbsp;former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omer Abdullah once again said on Wednesday that the BJP is not interested in holding elections in the union territory and dared it to conduct the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.\u201cLet them hold the Parliament and assembly elections here together, we will see who stands where,\u201d Omer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former chief minister said that the delayed elections in the region was indicative of the existing crises and criticized the government for being afraid to hold elections due to widespread discontent among the people.<br>Responding to a question on films being made to \u201cdefame\u201d Islam, Omar Abdullah said, \u201cIslam is not so weak that a film made by someone would impact our religion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know there are some people who have so much hatred for our religion that they cannot tolerate us and they often make these kinds of movies in between. We have been negating them and will continue to do so,\u201d he added.<br>Talking about the upcoming unity meeting of opposition parties in Bihar on June 23, Omar Abdullah stated that the National Conference has a limited role to play in the gathering. He, however, highlighted that parties with a significant number of seats in Parliament should demonstrate unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NC leader and&nbsp;former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omer Abdullah once again said on Wednesday that the BJP is not interested in holding elections in the union territory and dared it to conduct the exercise. .\u201cLet them hold the Parliament and assembly elections here together, we will see who stands where,\u201d Omer said. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":344155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[15686,16849],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344154"}],"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=344154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344165,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344154\/revisions\/344165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/344155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}