{"id":249071,"date":"2024-09-23T00:16:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=249071"},"modified":"2024-09-23T00:16:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T18:46:01","slug":"cong-pledges-to-safeguard-rights-of-jks-people-kharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/cong-pledges-to-safeguard-rights-of-jks-people-kharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Cong pledges to safeguard rights of J&#038;K&#8217;s people: Kharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JAMMU, 22 Sep:<\/strong> Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday reaffirmed the party&#8217;s commitment to protecting the constitutional rights of the people of Jammu &amp; Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kharge said that the Congress&#8217; seven guarantees for Jammu &amp; Kashmir aim to usher in a brighter future for the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Indian National Congress pledges to safeguard the constitutional rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Our progressive development agenda is for everyone,&#8221; Kharge said on X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kharge&#8217;s X handle highlighted a presentation detailing the Congress&#8217; seven guarantees for the people of Jammu &amp; Kashmir, and said &#8220;these guarantees will bring about a brighter future by focusing on social justice and economic empowerment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The presentation emphasised party&#8217;s first guarantee, which starts from the restoration of full statehood to the union territory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party promised free medical treatment of up to Rs 25 lakhs for every family and the establishment of a superspecialty hospital in every district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The guarantees also include the implementation of former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh&#8217;s plan for the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits and securing constitution-based rights for the OBC community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other guarantees include financial protection of Rs 3,000 per month for women heads of families and food security, ensuring 11 kgs of grain for every family member, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress also pledged to provide crop insurance against natural calamities, along with a minimum support price of Rs 72 per kilogram for apples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party promised financial support of Rs 4,000 per year for landless, tenant, and land-owning farming households. It also proposed an unemployment allowance of up to Rs 3,500 per month for one year for qualified youths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress has further committed to fill one lakh vacant government posts by releasing a job calendar within 30 days. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU, 22 Sep: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday reaffirmed the party&#8217;s commitment to protecting the constitutional rights of the people of Jammu &amp; Kashmir. Kharge said that the Congress&#8217; seven guarantees for Jammu &amp; Kashmir aim to usher in a brighter future for the region. &#8220;The Indian National Congress pledges to safeguard the constitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249071","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=249071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}