{"id":32480,"date":"2020-08-31T22:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T16:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=32480"},"modified":"2020-08-31T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T16:41:40","slug":"kashmiri-pandit-organisation-slams-gupkar-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=32480","title":{"rendered":"Kashmiri Pandit organisation slams Gupkar Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11769716_Kashmiri-pandit-organisation-slams-Gupkar-Declaration.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jammu<\/strong>: An organisation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits &#8216;India 4 Kashmir&#8217; on Monday slammed the Gupkar Declaration and said the community was at the forefront of the fight to revoke Article 370 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The declaration is a resolution issued after an all-party meeting on August 4, 2019, at the Gupkar residence of National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, a day before the Centre announced its decision to revoke Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s special status and split it into two union territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The organisation also condemned and disowned support to the declaration by certain fringe elements of the Kashmiri Pandit community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Kashmiri Pandits have always been at the forefront of the fight for abrogation of article 370 and 35A, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The reaction comes after a delegation of Kashmiri Pandit entrepreneurs on August 27 called on National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah here and extended its support to Gupkar Declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>India 4 Kashmir has condemned and disowned support to the Gupkar declaration by certain fringe elements of the Kashmiri Pandit community, the organisations spokesperson in Delhi Sakshi Mattoo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>She also said a statement about the meeting reeks of suspicion as it does not mention a single name of the so-called delegation members that called on former chief minister Farooq Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The Centre on August 5 last year had abrogated Article 370, which granted special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, and divided it into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Col Tej K Tikoo, President All India Kashmiri Samaj, in his statement denounced the Gupkar declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said &#8220;Kashmiri Pandits have always been at the forefront of the fight for abrogation of article 370 and 35A&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI Jammu: An organisation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits &#8216;India 4 Kashmir&#8217; on Monday slammed the Gupkar Declaration and said the community was at the forefront of the fight to revoke Article 370 . The declaration is a resolution issued after an all-party meeting on August 4, 2019, at the Gupkar residence of National Conference president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32480","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\/32480","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=32480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32480\/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=32480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}