{"id":3826,"date":"2014-06-20T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2014-06-20T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T15:59:00","slug":"sikh-delegation-calls-soz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=3826","title":{"rendered":"Sikh delegation calls on Soz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>A large delegation of Sikh Community drawn from various\u00a0 parts of Kashmir Valley, such as Beerwah, Tral, Baramulla and Budgam met Prof. Saifuddin Soz President Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee here today.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued to KNS, the delegation was led by Senior Congress Leader\u00a0Nazir Ahmad Khan \u2013 Beerwah. The Sikh Community leaders highlighted their two main demands:- The Sikh Community demands\u00a0 that the Election under\u00a0 the\u00a0 Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee Act should be organized very immediately as under the Act It\u2019s incumbent on the Government to organize\u00a0 such elections. The Delegation regretted that the Elections were not held since 2008 and it\u2019s a deplorable fact. The Sikh Community leaders also highlighted \u00a0other genuine demand\u00a0 that Sikhs in \u00a0J&amp;K should be declared as a minority community and relief should be provided to them in various ways as they deserve the same. Prof. Soz assured\u00a0 them that both\u00a0 these demands would be brought to the notice of INC \u2013 NC Coordination Committee very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0A large delegation of Sikh Community drawn from various\u00a0 parts of Kashmir Valley, such as Beerwah, Tral, Baramulla and Budgam met Prof. Saifuddin Soz President Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee here today. According to a statement issued to KNS, the delegation was led by Senior Congress Leader\u00a0Nazir Ahmad Khan \u2013 Beerwah. The Sikh Community [&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-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","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=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}