{"id":5930,"date":"2016-10-08T20:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T14:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2016-10-08T20:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T14:42:27","slug":"ut-status-row-congress-refuses-comment-nc-decide-leaders-fate-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5930","title":{"rendered":"UT Status row: Congress refuses to comment, NC to decide leader\u2019s fate after his response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong><\/em> Congress and National Conference are yet to take any action against its party leaders who supported the demand, urging Home Minister Rajnath Singh to grant union territory status to Ladakh.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>GA Mir, state congress Chief refused to make any direct comment on the party stand over the issue.<br \/>\n\u201cI will not speak what Congress has done or is going to do against its leader who signed the document, demanding union territory status for Ladakh. My question is what action PDP has taken against cabinet minister who was the signatory of that document,\u201d he told KNS while refusing to make any direct comment.<br \/>\nNational Conference councilors Punchok Tashi and Tsering Angdus and Congress councilor Skalzang Wangyul were among others who supported the UT demand in meeting with the Union Minister. They were the signatory of memorandum of demand.<br \/>\nOn October 5, this year, ruling PDP expelled its district president Leh for violating the party whip to support the demand of Union Territory for Ladakh.<br \/>\nNational Conference, General Secretary, Ali Muhammad Sagar said that the party has put the member in question under suspension.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have sought an explanation from him as how did he go against party whip. He is furnishing the explanation shortly,\u201d Sagar told KNS.<br \/>\n\u201cThe party will decide about his fate after going through his response. The stand of party has not changed and we continue to work for the integrity of the state,\u201d he added. <em><strong>(KNS)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Congress and National Conference are yet to take any action against its party leaders who supported the demand, urging Home Minister Rajnath Singh to grant union territory status to Ladakh. GA Mir, state congress Chief refused to make any direct comment on the party stand over the issue. \u201cI will not speak what Congress [&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-5930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930","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=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}