{"id":15315,"date":"2019-01-11T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T03:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=15315"},"modified":"2019-01-11T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T03:55:04","slug":"next-course-of-action-will-depend-on-what-people-of-kashmir-want-shah-faesal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=15315","title":{"rendered":"Next course of action will depend on what people of Kashmir want: Shah Faesal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Srinagar:<\/i><\/strong> A day after quitting the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Shah Faesal, who topped the exam in 2009, on Thursday said his next course of action will depend on what the people of Kashmir, especially the youth, want him to do.<\/i><\/p>\n

Faesal said he received both abuse and adulation over his decision to quit the government service but he had \u201ctotally expected this\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cAs of now I have quit the service. What I am going to do hereafter also depends on what people of Kashmiri want me to do. More so the youth,\u201d he wrote in Facebook post.<\/i><\/p>\n

Faesal asked people if they have any ideas for him before he takes a final decision about his future.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are ready to come out of Fb\/Twitter and show up in Srinagar tomorrow (Friday), we could think this through together. My choice of politics will be decided by real people not Fb likes and comments,\u201d Faesal added.<\/i><\/p>\n

The MBBS degree holder said he would share the venue details after he knows who all are coming to meet him.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s see out of those hundreds and thousands how many are ready to walk the talk. Type yes in the comments below. Don\u2019t tell me later that I should have asked the youth first,\u201d he said.<\/i><\/p>\n

The former IAS officer is widely tipped to join the National Conference but his Facebook post has given rise to more speculation.<\/i><\/p>\n

Faesal had resigned Wednesday, protesting against the \u201cunabated\u201d killings in Kashmir and a \u201clack of sincere reach out\u201d from the Union government.<\/i><\/p>\n

The 35-year-old said his resignation was also to protest \u201cthe marginalization and invisiblisation of around 200 million Indian Muslims at the hands of Hindutva forces reducing them to second-class citizens; insidious attacks on the special identity of the state and growing culture of intolerance and hate in mainland India in the name of hyper-nationalism\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n

Without naming it, Faesal launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led government at the Centre, saying the \u201csubversion of public institutions like the RBI, the CBI and the NIA has the potential to decimate the constitutional edifice of this country and it needs to be stopped\u201d. PTI<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar: A day after quitting the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Shah Faesal, who topped the exam in 2009, on Thursday said his next course of action will depend on what the people of Kashmir, especially the youth, want him to do. Faesal said he received both abuse and adulation over his decision to quit the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15315","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\/15315","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=15315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315\/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=15315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}