{"id":15463,"date":"2019-01-13T19:09:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T13:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=15463"},"modified":"2019-01-13T19:09:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T13:39:18","slug":"kashmir-needs-democracy-not-governor-rule-dulat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=15463","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir needs democracy not Governor rule: Dulat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><i>Says holding Lok Sabha, Assembly polls separately will be a big blunder<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><i>Srinagar:<\/i><\/strong><i> Former RAW chief and expert on Kashmir affairs, A S Dulat Sunday said holding Assembly and parliament polls separately can be a big blunder. He said Kashmir at this crucial point of junction needs democracy and not Governors or Presidents rule.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cThese elections should be held together and not separately. This is my opinion,\u201d Dulat told Kashmir News Service (KNS) over phone from New Delhi.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>He said until today we could not hold Anantnag by-polls.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Iss Duran aap elections karwadey tou karwadey. Also Governor\u2019s rule should never extend beyond six months in any case. If you can\u2019t hold polls together, it will then take you two more years to conduct Assembly polls,\u201d he added.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cKashmir at this moment needs democracy more than anything else. Moderates, mainstream people to take things in right direction,\u201d he said.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cWe had Governor\u2019s rule for six years once upon a time. What did that yield us. Nothing!\u201d he said. (KNS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says holding Lok Sabha, Assembly polls separately will be a big blunder Srinagar: Former RAW chief and expert on Kashmir affairs, A S Dulat Sunday said holding Assembly and parliament polls separately can be a big blunder. He said Kashmir at this crucial point of junction needs democracy and not Governors or Presidents rule. \u201cThese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15463","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\/15463","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=15463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/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=15463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}