{"id":20178,"date":"2020-01-29T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T06:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=20178"},"modified":"2020-01-29T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T06:25:18","slug":"ex-pdp-leader-bukhari-denies-forming-new-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=20178","title":{"rendered":"Ex-PDP Leader Bukhari Denies Forming New Political Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SRINAGAR \u2013 Former PDP Minister Altaf Bukhari, who had met Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor G.C. Murmu along with other political leaders earlier this month, on Tuesday denied reports that he was floating a new political party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a statement, he dismissed such reports as a \u201cfigment of imagination\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis news seems to have been floated with a single-minded agenda to mislead and confuse,\u201d a spokesperson for Bukhari said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He said as already informed to media, a \u201csignificant number of like-minded friends and political colleagues are in touch with each other and in this context, informal meetings are often convened\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese meetings are aimed at reviving the emerging political situation and should not be misconstrued as formation of any political party.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Earlier this month, Bukhari led a group of former legislators which met Murmu in Jammu and presented a memorandum with a list of demands for restoring political activity in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bukhari stressed that Jammu and Kashmir cannot perpetually \u201cmourn\u201d the abrogation of Article 370.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In an exclusive interview with IANS, Bukhari had said the time has come to look beyond Article 370 and explore other achievable options for Jammu and Kashmir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe pain of loss of Article 370 will never go, but we have to come out of it,\u201d he said. \u201cLife goes on; we must try for things that we can get.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He said the way forward is domicile rights for residents and restoration of the statehood to Jammu and Kashmir. (With Inputs From Agencies)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR \u2013 Former PDP Minister Altaf Bukhari, who had met Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor G.C. Murmu along with other political leaders earlier this month, on Tuesday denied reports that he was floating a new political party. In a statement, he dismissed such reports as a \u201cfigment of imagination\u201d. \u201cThis news seems to have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20178","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\/20178","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=20178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20178\/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=20178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}