{"id":27920,"date":"2020-06-18T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=27920"},"modified":"2020-06-18T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T14:17:13","slug":"sheikh-imran-denies-of-being-proxy-of-bjp-series-of-incidents-involving-corporators-need-to-be-probed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27920","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Imran denies of being proxy of BJP \u2018Series of incidents involving Corporators need to be probed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar: <\/strong>Former Deputy Mayor Shiekh Imran who addressed media on behalf of 42 Corporators that were part of floor test and unseated Junaid Azam Matuu Thursday appealed police to probe a series of incidents involving those Corporators who fought against the outgoing Mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Corporators who questioned the \u2018corrupt\u2019 practices of outgoing Mayor and defeated him in floor test are being targeted. I appeal people to conduct probe into a series of incidents and provide safe and secure atmosphere for these Corporators,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheikh Imran according to news agency KNT interacted with media here at Mayor\u2019s Private Office in Srinagar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA live grenade was kept in the house of our youngest female Corporator Nazia. The vehicle of our another Corporator Afroza was damaged. I was myself hounded and pursued a couple of days back in Srinagar and I have filed a complaint at police station Barzulla. Some substances were mixed in the beverage of our 2 Corporators- Ashraf Palapori and Asif. They spat blood with saliva,\u201d these incidents need to be probed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While hailing the role of the police and Commissioner SMC in ensuring smooth floor test, Sheikh Imran said that Corporators should be provided security and secure accommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe do believe in democratic principles and ethics. We are here to serve people,\u201d he said and denied the reports of being proxy of BJP. \u201cCongress abstained in the floor test and so does BJP. Congress has 16 Corporators, while BJP has only 4 and is it possible that a party with 4 Corporators can oust a Mayor. Actually, all the Corporators cutting across party line joined hands to show door to \u2018corrupt\u2019 Mayor,\u201d he said. (KNT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Former Deputy Mayor Shiekh Imran who addressed media on behalf of 42 Corporators that were part of floor test and unseated Junaid Azam Matuu Thursday appealed police to probe a series of incidents involving those Corporators who fought against the outgoing Mayor. \u201cThe Corporators who questioned the \u2018corrupt\u2019 practices of outgoing Mayor and defeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27920","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\/27920","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=27920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27920\/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=27920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}