{"id":477,"date":"2014-03-04T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/pdp-held-protest-rally-sets-farooq-abdullahs-effigy-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:17:00","slug":"pdp-held-protest-rally-sets-farooq-abdullahs-effigy-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"PDP held protest rally Sets Farooq Abdullah\u2019s effigy on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Srinagar: <\/b>The opposition Peoples Democratic Party held a protest rally in Srinagar<\/span> on Tuesday <\/span>against Farooq Abdullah remarks that \u201cKashmiris are maha chor.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
The PDP activists, led by their leader Khursheed Alam, marched through Lal Chowk in Srinagar, demanding apology from Farooq. The PDP activists set the effigy of Farooq Abdullah on fire near Regal Chowk Srinagar while police stopped them from moving towards City Centre Lal Chowk.<\/span><\/div>\n
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According to CNS, scores of People\u2019s Democratic Party activists led by Khursheed Alam took out a march against Farooq Abdullah\u2019s remarks that Kashmir\u2019s are \u2018mahachor\u2019. The party activists raised slogans like, \u2018shame to Farooq, shame to NC\u2019, were stopped by police near Regal Chowk shortly after they set the effigy of Farooq Abdullah on fire.<\/span><\/div>\n
Talking to reporters, PDP leader Muhammad Khursheed Alam said that  NC is corrupt to the core. \u201cHow can the National Conference be so shameless? They are patronizing corruption in the State and they are calling Kashmiris thieves. It is outright shamelessness,\u201d he said that it is irony that Farooq Abdullah is insulting those people who voted him and his party to power.<\/span><\/div>\n
Khursheed Alam said the National Conference first \u201clabeled the Kashmir youth as drug addicts and stone pelters\u201d and now their leader has \u201cridiculed\u201d Kashmiris by calling them thieves. He said Abdullah\u2019s statement is an insult to Kashmiris and he should apologize for his remarks.<\/span><\/div>\n
Another PDP leader Yasir Reshi said, \u201cWho is the big thief? You should turn the pages of history and you will find how NC first looted Kashmiris in the name of a movement and now it continues to pile up the sufferings of people,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/div>\n
Besides Alam and Reshi other leaders who were part of the march included Haji Parvez and Abdul Hamid Kosheen.<\/span><\/div>\n
Farooq Abdullah, who is also a Union Minister, had made the reported remark over alleged pilferage of electricity by people in Kashmir who, he said, by-passed electric meters to avoid payments to the fund-starved State electricity department.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cKashmiri Chor Nahi, Maha Chor Hai (Kashmiris are not just thieves, they are the biggest thieves),\u201d Abdullah had reportedly said at a function in New Delhi while releasing the ‘citizens report on state of renewable energy.\u201d (CNS)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Srinagar: The opposition Peoples Democratic Party held a protest rally in Srinagar on Tuesday against Farooq Abdullah remarks that \u201cKashmiris are maha chor.\u201d The PDP activists, led by their leader Khursheed Alam, marched through Lal Chowk in Srinagar, demanding apology from Farooq. The PDP activists set the effigy of Farooq Abdullah on fire near Regal Chowk Srinagar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","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\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/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=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}