{"id":35017,"date":"2020-11-09T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=35017"},"modified":"2020-11-09T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:43:00","slug":"kashmir-politician-welcome-new-elect-us-prez-v-prez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=35017","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir Politicians welcome new elect US Prez, V-Prez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar:&nbsp;<\/strong>Politicians in Kashmir have welcomed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for electing president and vice president of the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Following the US election results, former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah welcomed Biden and Harris to be elected new president and vice president of the USA, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mehbooba Mufti as per news agency Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS) said, \u201cTheir win gives hope to the rest of the world that Right-wing extremism and those who sow division and hatred will sooner or later be relegated to the pages of history like Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>While Omar Abdullah said, \u201cTo lose Bihar and the White House within days of each other would make for a pretty bad few days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Last October, Harris had said: \u201cWe have to remind the Kashmiris that they are not alone in the world. We are keeping a track on the situation. There is a need to intervene if the situation demands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Further, in a policy paper posted on Biden\u2019s campaign website in June this year, titled \u2018Joe Biden\u2019s agenda for Muslim American community\u2019, the President-elect had asked the Indian government to take \u201call necessary steps to restore the rights of all the people of Kashmir\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The paper also stated: \u201cRestrictions on dissent, such as preventing peaceful protests or shutting or slowing down the internet, weakens democracy.\u201d (KINS)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:&nbsp;Politicians in Kashmir have welcomed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for electing president and vice president of the USA. Following the US election results, former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah welcomed Biden and Harris to be elected new president and vice president of the USA, respectively. Mehbooba Mufti as per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35017","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\/35017","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=35017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35017\/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=35017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}