{"id":8052,"date":"2016-12-15T11:05:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=8052"},"modified":"2016-12-15T11:05:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:35:50","slug":"bjp-opposes-ex-gratia-burhans-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=8052","title":{"rendered":"BJP opposes ex gratia for Burhan\u2019s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Jammu:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>Already facing criticism for compromising core of its ideology for power, the BJP has landed in an embarrassing position after the coalition government announced compensation for the family of slain militant commander Burhan Wani for the death of his brother Khalid Wani. Infuriated over the unilateral decision of the PDP, which is heading the coalition, the \u201cembarrassed\u201d BJP leadership said it would not support any compensation for the terrorist\u2019s family.\u201cNo question of allowing the state government to release compensation for the family a militant who was involved in a number of terror acts,\u201d said state BJP president Sat Sharma, adding, \u201cas of now only the name of Burhan Wani\u2019s family has figured in the list issued by the state government but we will force the government to delete it.\u201dInterestingly, no BJP minister is ready to come on record to oppose the government\u2019s decision but the party leadership has taken the issue seriously.Highly placed sources said the BJP leadership had made it clear to its ministers that accepting this proposal would prove disastrous to the party in the Jammu region and have ramifications in other parts of the country as well.The PDP-BJP government has announced compensation for the death of Khalid Wani, who was killed by the Army on April 13, 2015, under mysterious circumstances.While the Army had claimed Khalid was an overground worker of Hizbul Mujahideen and was killed in an encounter, his family said he was \u201ctortured to death.\u201d According to government norms, the ex gratia entitles a victim\u2019s family to a payment of Rs 4 lakh or employment for a member of the family.By announcing the compensation, the state government has admitted that Khalid was innocent and was killed by\u0007the forces. \u201cHow come government came to the conclusion that Khalid was innocent?\u201d, asked the state BJP president, while warning, \u201cWe will vociferously take up this issue in the coming session \u0007of the Assembly.\u201dThe BJP state president, quoting the statement of the security forces on the day of encounter, said it had been confirmed that Khalid Wani, who had been operating as an overground worker, had taken three youths, who were later arrested by the police, to meet his brother Burhan Wani for their recruitment to the terrorist organisation. The incident had thus prevented the three youth from being misguided by Khalid into joining the militant ranks.Bickering in the \u201cuncomfortable\u201d alliance of the two parties, having diametrically opposite ideologies, came to the fore during the Cabinet meeting on Friday when CM Mehbooba Mufti had walked out of the meeting midway on the issue of appointing KPS officers to the posts of DIG and IG. (TNS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu:\u00a0Already facing criticism for compromising core of its ideology for power, the BJP has landed in an embarrassing position after the coalition government announced compensation for the family of slain militant commander Burhan Wani for the death of his brother Khalid Wani. Infuriated over the unilateral decision of the PDP, which is heading the coalition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8052","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\/8052","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=8052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052\/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=8052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}