{"id":349089,"date":"2024-06-21T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=349089"},"modified":"2024-06-21T19:31:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T01:01:57","slug":"pm-modis-choice-of-kashmir-as-yoga-day-venue-is-symbolic-assertive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modis-choice-of-kashmir-as-yoga-day-venue-is-symbolic-assertive\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi\u2019s choice of Kashmir as Yoga Day venue is symbolic & assertive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong> The decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold the 10th International Day of Yoga in J&K\u2019s Srinagar city is both symbolic and assertive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PM Modi chose to join the Yoga participants in Srinagar in the aftermath of a series of terror attacks in the Jammu division, including the one on innocent pilgrims in the Reasi district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine pilgrims were killed and 44 injured in the Reasi terror attack on June 9 when terrorists first killed the driver of the bus and then kept firing at the overturned bus for 20 minutes to ensure that no pilgrim survived the cowardly attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The terror attack in Reasi and Kathua district followed the large participation of the people especially from the Valley in the Lok Sabha polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the PM said the terror attacks were \u2018the last ditch efforts of the enemies of Kashmir\u2019s progress, India would teach them a befitting lesson\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PM Modi chose Srinagar as the venue for the Yoga Day celebrations because he knew that the focus of the world would be on this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yoga has caught the imagination of the world in such a large manner that has perhaps not been matched by any other event before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 177 countries at the UN supported the Indian resolution on Yoga which was passed in a record time of 90 days. Never before in the history of the UN has any other resolution been passed in such a record time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was under this backdrop that PM Modi decided to have the world’s attention focused on Kashmir by his presence in Srinagar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undeterred by the terror attacks, PM Modi made the big announcement that preparations for the Assembly elections are already underway and that the people of J&amp;K would soon have an Assembly of elected representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also assured restoration of statehood to the UT saying that J&amp;K would soon touch new heights of progress and prosperity with its statehood back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a clear and loud message to the enemies of democracy in J&amp;K. The country is determined to restore complete democracy in J&amp;K and return political power to the elected members of the Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has already issued the primary notification asking the political parties to apply for election symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all likelihood, Assembly elections would be held in J&amp;K before the deadline of September 30 set by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PM Modi also spoke about the security situation when he said that the Centre is determined to eradicate terrorism at all costs from the soil of J&amp;K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He referred to two security review meetings taken by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The detractors of PM Modi have been blaming him for denying the people of Kashmir a truly representative local government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PM\u2019s speech, which was watched by the World as he spoke from the Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) by the banks of the Dal Lake, has put a full stop to his detractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A on August 5, 2019, by Parliament removed the last barrier between J&amp;K and the rest of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PM Modi\u2019s assurance of early Assembly elections and restoration of statehood would serve two national objectives — the promise of complete integration of J&amp;K with the country and an equal share of democracy, progress and prosperity for the people here who have seen over 30 years of worst violence and uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar:\u00a0 The decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold the 10th International Day of Yoga in J&K\u2019s Srinagar city is both symbolic and assertive. PM Modi chose to join the Yoga participants in Srinagar in the aftermath of a series of terror attacks in the Jammu division, including the one on innocent pilgrims in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":349090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16857,15520,16010],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349089"}],"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=349089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349091,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349089\/revisions\/349091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/349090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}