{"id":17498,"date":"2019-04-21T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T11:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=17498"},"modified":"2019-04-21T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T11:09:29","slug":"jk-cong-leaders-have-to-take-permission-from-delhi-even-for-minor-decisions-omar-abdullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=17498","title":{"rendered":"JK Cong leaders have to take permission from Delhi even for minor decisions: Omar Abdullah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Srinagar:<\/em><\/strong><em> National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah Sunday said Congress leaders from Jammu and Kashmir are not allowed to take decisions on their own.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When we were in an alliance with Congress, I noticed it myself that even for minor decisions they have to seek permission from party leadership in New Delhi, &#8221; Omar told reporters on the sidelines of a party function in South Kashmir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, Omar said, NC candidates for Parliamentary Elections if elected will not have to take &#8220;dictation&#8221; from New Delhi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Not only New Delhi but even National Conference top leadership. Our Parliamentarians will just have to represent the voice of people of Jammu and Kashmir,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Omar said people should come out to vote as boycotting elections will only help the BJP and RSS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He said it was unfortunate that Election Commision of India was ignoring repeated violations of Model Code of Conduct by Prime Minister Narendara Modi and top BJP leadership. (GNS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah Sunday said Congress leaders from Jammu and Kashmir are not allowed to take decisions on their own. &#8220;When we were in an alliance with Congress, I noticed it myself that even for minor decisions they have to seek permission from party leadership in New Delhi, &#8221; Omar told [&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-17498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498","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=17498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}