{"id":11380,"date":"2018-03-13T08:34:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T03:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2018-03-13T08:34:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T03:04:43","slug":"haseeb-drabu-likely-to-quit-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=11380","title":{"rendered":"Haseeb Drabu likely to quit PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>Srinagar:<\/b><\/i><i> Following the dramatic development in state politics after Haseeb Drabu, was Monday sacked from his post as finance minister of Jammu and Kashmir over a controversial comment that Kashmir is \u201cnot a political issue\u201d, internal sources in ruling Party Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) told newsgathering agency Kashmir News Bureau (KNB) that Drabu is all set to quit from the basic membership of party.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>A senior leader of the party pleading anonymity told KNB that \u201cafter facing the humiliation he (Drabu) has decided to quit the party as a mark of protest against the extreme decision of his sacking by Chief Minister and Party President Mehbooba Mufti.\u201d<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Meanwhile sources said that MLA Sonawar constituency Mohammad Ashraf Mir and other new faces are likely to get the cabinet berth following the vacuum created after Drabu\u2019s exit. The sources said deliberations were held in party circles over the portfolio of finance minister where senior PDP leader and Parliament member Muzzafar Beigh\u2019s name was put on forth.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Pertinently, Drabu addressing diplomats and investors at the function hosted by the PHD Chamber of Commerce in New Delhi had termed Kashmir issue \u2018apolitical\u2019 which incensed his party PDP and also left it facing attacks from both mainstream parties and Hurriat camp as well.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Drabu formally joined the PDP in 2014 and successfully contested the state elections on the party ticket from his home constituency Rajpora. <\/i><i><b>(KNB)<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Following the dramatic development in state politics after Haseeb Drabu, was Monday sacked from his post as finance minister of Jammu and Kashmir over a controversial comment that Kashmir is \u201cnot a political issue\u201d, internal sources in ruling Party Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) told newsgathering agency Kashmir News Bureau (KNB) that Drabu is all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}