{"id":13869,"date":"2018-12-27T19:16:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T13:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=13869"},"modified":"2018-12-27T19:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T13:46:51","slug":"cleaning-of-dal-lake-triggers-war-of-words-between-srinagars-mayor-deputy-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=13869","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning of Dal Lake triggers war of words between Srinagar&#8217;s Mayor, Deputy Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>SRINAGAR:<\/i><\/strong><i>  A war of words between Srinagar&#8217;s Mayor and Deputy Mayor broke out on Thursday after the Mayor, Junaid Azim Mattu expressed his disapproval over Army&#8217;s involvement in cleaning the Dal Lake on Wednesday.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Meanwhile, Deputy Mayor Mohammed Imran has said that he would criticise the army if they committed any harm against the civilians, but if it is a good job such as assistance with the cleaning of Dal Lake, then he greatly appreciates the wonderful job.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>On December 22, Imran had tweeted that the Srinagar Municipal Corporation, in collaboration with Army, Lakes and Water Ways Development Authority (LAWDA) and the local public of Dal was conducting a cleansing drive for 21 days, headed by him.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>However, the Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu took to Twitter to point out that the Army was not needed in civic matters. He tweeted &#8220;SMC has not entered into any collaborative operation with the Army for any cleaning, de-weeding operations in Dal&#8221; on December 24.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Responding to a Twitter user, he further said &#8220;I don&#8217;t think the Army needs to venture into civil governance domains. Not the job of the Army.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The difference of opinion between these two major representatives of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation indicates a major rift between them. While Mattu is from the Sajad Lone-led People&#8217;s Conference, Imran is backed by Congress. (PTK)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: A war of words between Srinagar&#8217;s Mayor and Deputy Mayor broke out on Thursday after the Mayor, Junaid Azim Mattu expressed his disapproval over Army&#8217;s involvement in cleaning the Dal Lake on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Deputy Mayor Mohammed Imran has said that he would criticise the army if they committed any harm against the civilians, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13869","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\/13869","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=13869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13869\/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=13869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}