{"id":15332,"date":"2019-01-11T18:40:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=15332"},"modified":"2019-01-11T18:40:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T13:10:04","slug":"inspired-by-imran-khan-kejriwal-have-my-entire-life-for-kashmir-now-shah-faesal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=15332","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by Imran Khan, Kejriwal, have my entire life for Kashmir now: Shah Faesal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Says \u2018No plans to join any existing mainstream party, won\u2019t join Hurriyat\u2019<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Srinagar:<\/i><\/strong> The IAS topper Shah Faesal who resigned from the country\u2019s elite service recently, Friday said that he is deeply inspired by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, stating that he would like to serve the people of Kashmir, saying his entire life is for Kashmir now.<\/i>
\nHowever, the record maker IAS officer also said that he has no plans to join any existing mainstream party \u2018as of now\u2019.<\/i>
\nAs per Kashmir News Service (KNS) correspondent, addressing a press conference here at a hotel in Rajbagh, Shah Faesal said that he has no plans to join any existing mainstream political party \u2018as of now\u2019. He also rejected to join the Hurriyat, saying that he is the man from the system and would be happy to change things by being in the system.<\/i>
\n\u201cHurriyat doesn\u2019t give me that opportunity as they don\u2019t believe in electoral politics,\u201d he said while reacting to a question asked to him over the tweet of Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. He said that Mirwaiz\u2019s tweet was not an invitation but a suggestion. <\/i>
\n\u201cI am qualified enough to become Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) or Member of Parliament (MP),\u201d he said while reacting to a question of a journalist in a presser.<\/i>
\n\u201cAs of now, I have no plans to join any existing mainstream political party. My future course of action lies in the suggestions of the youth whom he is scheduled to meet from tomorrow. We will reach to consensus before taking the final decision,\u201d he said. Referring to a query, Shah Faesal said that he is deeply inspired by Pak PM Imran Khan and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal but \u201cas we are operating in a conflict zone and is not very easy for us to work in that space, which is not pleasant. I wish if youngsters give me support then I will be very happy to do a retake of Imran Khan and Kejriwal.\u201d <\/i>
\nAsked whether he is going to contest the upcoming parliamentary elections, Shah said, \u201cI believe parliamentary and assembly is an important space. We need well-meaning people there. Due to de-legitimization of mainstream politics, youth were not interested towards that politics. We need to change that. I would like to use parliament an important and useful tool of engagement for bringing solution to our state.\u201d<\/i>
\n\u201cI will make people believe that it is a credible institution and not to destroy people. We want destroy the politics the way it has been happening,\u201d he added.<\/i>
\nHe said that after resigning from the country\u2019s elite service has no work now and his entire life is for Kashmir now.<\/i>
\nReacting to a question over mixed response by denizens on social media over his joining of politics, Shah Faesal said, \u201cThe movement you started own party, people believe it is sponsored by agencies. If you contest independently then you are an agency person for them. If you join exiting party, then people have problem with that too. We will take any decision once I get suggestions from the youth. I will go to the grass-root level and will start work.\u201d<\/i>
\nIn reply to a question, Shah Faesal also praised the former chief minister and Nationals Conference (NC) Vice President during the presser, saying \u201cOmar is a gracious person and supported me. Omar is a leader who guided me always. I would like to make it clear in this press conference that NC never approached me but I went to Omar Abdullah for suggestions,\u201d he said.<\/i>
\nShah Faesal in the beginning of the press conference said it is an important day of his life after serving the people from past nine years at different posts.<\/i>
\nHe reiterated that he resigned from country\u2019s elite service as mark of protest, saying rise of lynch mob extremism is another reason for my decision. <\/i>
\nThe culture of undermining the institutions like CBI, NIA are part of the provocations that have resulted in my decision to resign from the IAS,\u201d he said, adding that the return Kashmir Pandits should be made possible, which the Central government hasn’t done so far.<\/i>
\nHe added that there were constant attacks of the identity of Jammu and Kashmir, adding that \u201cArticle 370 and 35A must be guarded to strength the bound between India and Jammu and Kashmir.\u201d (KNS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Says \u2018No plans to join any existing mainstream party, won\u2019t join Hurriyat\u2019 Srinagar: The IAS topper Shah Faesal who resigned from the country\u2019s elite service recently, Friday said that he is deeply inspired by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, stating that he would like to serve the people of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15332","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\/15332","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=15332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15332\/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=15332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}