{"id":457,"date":"2014-03-05T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/army-not-needed-for-long-in-kashmir-kejriwal\/"},"modified":"2014-03-05T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:02:00","slug":"army-not-needed-for-long-in-kashmir-kejriwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Army not needed for long in Kashmir: Kejriwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u2018Article 370 must remain in force\u2019<\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b> Commenting over Army\u2019s presence in Kashmir valley, Aam Admi Party (AAP) party chief and a former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stated that Army must not stay in valley for a longer period as the same could have many several repercussions.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">According to the reports received by KNS, Kejriwal while speaking in a news talk show \u2018Candidate 2014\u2019 stated that the government at New Delhi must prioritize its efforts to win the hearts of the people of Kashmir and that once it succeeds in doing so the positive change becomes inevitable.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Kejriwal stated further, \u201cWe don\u2019t need lathis and guns in Kashmir- what we need is the positive approach so that the people of the region could be befriended. We have to win their hearts.\u201d However AAP chief added that he cannot comment over the period for which arm has to stay in valley. \u201cI can only say that we don\u2019t need army for a longer period in Kashmir.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Commenting over Article 370, Kejriwal said that the Article must stay and should not be abrogated. \u201cWe have different types of agreements of accession with different states in India. We have one type of agreement with the tribal areas and one with the hilly areas- India is a country with lot of diversity. \u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Substantiating his claims, Kejriwal said that there like Article 370 that provides special status to Jammu and Kashmir, there is Article 371, Article 371 (a,b,c) and that there are 13 more states other than Jammu and Kashmir with which we have agreements of different nature. \u201cThere are two types of federalism. One is Symmetrical and another one is Asymmetrical. Existence of India was a continuous process- Sikkim was included in the union territory later one. I think we must not touch the Article 370. Whatever is there in the constitution is good.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Reiterating that Kashmir is India\u2019s integral part, Kejriwal stated that when we call Kashmir as part of India, we have to accept that its people are our own people and are no different from us. \u201cOnce we win the hearts of the people of Kashmir- everything will be resolved.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;(KNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Article 370 must remain in force\u2019 Srinagar: Commenting over Army\u2019s presence in Kashmir valley, Aam Admi Party (AAP) party chief and a former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stated that Army must not stay in valley for a longer period as the same could have many several repercussions. According to the reports received by KNS, [&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-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}