{"id":52464,"date":"2022-11-19T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/dr-farooq-clears-air-says-will-contest-assembly-polls-for-sure\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T09:00:28","slug":"dr-farooq-clears-air-says-will-contest-assembly-polls-for-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=52464","title":{"rendered":"Dr Farooq clears air, says will contest Assembly polls for sure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Says won\u2019t contest party elections slated for Dec 05; in 1996, there was no party except NC, Employed Rehabr-e-Taleem, 300 doctors; ready to face Assembly polls, want peaceful J&amp;K, better relations with Delhi<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Jammu, Nov 19:<\/em><\/strong> National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah said on Saturday that he will contest the Assembly elections whenever they are held but won\u2019t fight party polls slated for December 05.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJ&amp;K is a place of rumours and that\u2019s nothing new. I will contest Assembly polls for sure whenever they are held. I won\u2019t fight the NC elections for choosing the party chief on December 05. Delegates will choose the new party president,\u201d Dr Farooq told reporters in Jammu, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that in 1996 there was no other party than NC. \u201cIt was the NC that employed teachers under Rehbar-e-Taleem and 300 doctors were appointed,\u201d he said. Senior Abdullah said NC\u2019s strategy for Assembly polls is ready and the party is fully geared up to face the elections. He said NC wants peaceful J&amp;K and better relations with New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Farooq\u2019s assertions comes a day after political grapevine was ripe with the rumours that he has decided to end his political career and won\u2019t neither contest party polls nor Assembly polls\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says won\u2019t contest party elections slated for Dec 05; in 1996, there was no party except NC, Employed Rehabr-e-Taleem, 300 doctors; ready to face Assembly polls, want peaceful J&amp;K, better relations with Delhi Jammu, Nov 19: National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah said on Saturday that he will contest the Assembly elections whenever they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52464","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\/52464","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=52464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52464\/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=52464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}