{"id":1520,"date":"2014-04-18T16:32:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2014-04-18T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T16:32:58","slug":"bjp-rubbishes-geelanis-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"BJP rubbishes Geelani\u2019s claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has denied that the party\u2019s prime-ministerial candidate Narendra Modi\u2019s representative have met any pro-freedom leader of Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to GNS, Advocate Ramesh Arora, who is in charge of BJP\u2019s Kashmir affairs, said no one from the party approached any Kashmiri separatist leader. \u201cWe didn\u2019t approach them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not been authorized to meet any of them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A senior BJP leader in New Delhi said that the party can\u2019t take any initiative over Kashmir until it retains power. \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone from party have met Geelani or any other separatist leader. We are not in the power yet so approaching them won\u2019t serve any purpose at this movement,\u201d he told GNS over phone from New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, BJP\u2019 National vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqwi when contacted by GNS refused to comment. \u201cI don\u2019t want to comment over it,\u201d he said. (GNS)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has denied that the party\u2019s prime-ministerial candidate Narendra Modi\u2019s representative have met any pro-freedom leader of Kashmir. Talking to GNS, Advocate Ramesh Arora, who is in charge of BJP\u2019s Kashmir affairs, said no one from the party approached any Kashmiri separatist leader. \u201cWe didn\u2019t approach them. \u201cWe have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","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=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}