{"id":50037,"date":"2022-01-16T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T05:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/factional-feud-at-kashmir-press-club-bjp-seeks-lg-sinhas-intervention\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T05:07:38","slug":"factional-feud-at-kashmir-press-club-bjp-seeks-lg-sinhas-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50037","title":{"rendered":"Factional feud at Kashmir Press Club: BJP seeks LG Sinha\u2019s intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar, Jan 15 (PTI)<\/strong> The BJP\u2019s Kashmir unit on Saturday urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to intervene in the issue of a factional feud between two groups for the management of Kashmir Press Club (KPC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the party\u2019s media in-charge and youth leader Manzoor Bhat also termed the politicising of the issue by some political parties a matter of grave concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is unfortunate that our so-called political parties are adding fuel to fire by issuing misleading statements rather than finding a solution to the issue of journalists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bhat said there has been an issue between the two bodies of journalists at KPC and there are allegations and counter-allegations between the two groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo verify the same, an independent body should probe the issue and get it resolved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He appealed to the lieutenant governor\u2019s administration to take cognizance of the issue and find out the reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBJP is not in support of politicising the issue of fourth pillar of democracy that has more responsibilities and get issues resolved on priority basis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kashmir Press Club (KPC) was witness to unfamiliar activities on Saturday when a few journalists accompanied by policemen reached there and claimed to be its \u201cnew management\u201d, a move that came hours after the Jammu and Kashmir administration had put on hold its registration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The policemen claimed to be Personal Security Officers of one of the journalists who released a statement to the media stating that \u201csome journalist forums\u201d had chosen them to be new office-bearers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The claims of the interim body were countered soon by a statement issued by around nine journalist bodies in Kashmir who denounced the forcible takeover of the KPC office with \u201copen support from administration\u201d and termed it \u201ca wrong and dangerous precedent\u201d. PTI SSB SMN SMN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. The Kashmir Today holds no responsibility for its content.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Jan 15 (PTI) The BJP\u2019s Kashmir unit on Saturday urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to intervene in the issue of a factional feud between two groups for the management of Kashmir Press Club (KPC). In a statement, the party\u2019s media in-charge and youth leader Manzoor Bhat also termed the politicising of the issue by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50037","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\/50037","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=50037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50037\/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=50037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}