{"id":247902,"date":"2024-09-05T01:14:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T19:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=247902"},"modified":"2024-09-05T01:14:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T19:44:36","slug":"will-restore-statehood-to-j-k-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/will-restore-statehood-to-j-k-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Will restore statehood to J-K: Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JAMMU, 4 Sep:<\/strong> Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday kick-started his party&#8217;s election campaign in Jammu &amp; Kashmir, assuring people that his party along with the help of INDIA bloc partners will ensure restoration of statehood to the union territory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We wished for restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir before the holding of assembly elections but the BJP was not willing and wanted the polls to be held first,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We will ensure return of statehood to the region, whether BJP wants it or not. We will pressurise the government under the banner of INDIA alliance to ensure restoration of statehood,&#8221; the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gandhi was addressing an election rally at Sangaldan, a part of Banihal Assembly constituency in Ramban district which is going to polls along with 25 other segments in the first phase of the three-phased assembly elections on 18 September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Pradesh Congress Committee president Vikar Rasool Wani is contesting from the constituency and is facing major challenge from National Conference candidate Sajad Shaheen and the BJP&#8217;s Saleem Bhat. Wani, a former minister, is eying a hat-trick from the seat. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU, 4 Sep: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday kick-started his party&#8217;s election campaign in Jammu &amp; Kashmir, assuring people that his party along with the help of INDIA bloc partners will ensure restoration of statehood to the union territory. &#8220;We wished for restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir before the holding of assembly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}