{"id":8610,"date":"2017-02-03T11:06:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=8610"},"modified":"2017-02-03T11:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:36:30","slug":"shiv-sena-hindustan-gets-new-members-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=8610","title":{"rendered":"Shiv Sena (Hindustan) gets new members in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>SRINAGAR:<\/strong> The Shiv Sena (Hindustan) Wednesday claimed that 200 people joined the right wing political party in northern Kashmir\u2019s Sumbal area.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cTwo hundred people joined our party in Sumbal Nowgam,\u201d Shiv Sena (Hindustaan), President Kashmir region, Abdul Khalid Bhat said. \u201cThey are our proud members now. We welcomed them with open arms.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bhat, who hails from Chadoora, said that people were jubilant on joining the party and took out a rally holding party flags showing their support.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe discussed basic problems faced by the people in the area with the newly arrived members. The members apprised me about the political situation prevailing in the area. I pledged them that I would do my utmost to address those problems,\u201d Bhat said.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI told them we are not double crossers like PDP, Congress and National Conference. We have one policy which we follow,\u201d he added. He said that Shiv Sena wants to change the mindset of people so that the party is not stigmatized.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cShiv Sena Hindustan is not anti-Muslim. There is an impression in Kashmir that the party is responsible for Muslim sufferings. It is not. We want to change this thinking in Kashmir,\u201d Bhat said.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He said that Kashmir wing of the party has constituted district bodies in Badgam and Bandipora.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe have around 1000 members in Kashmir. We will increase our activities in Kashmir to consolidate the party,\u201d Bhat added.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: The Shiv Sena (Hindustan) Wednesday claimed that 200 people joined the right wing political party in northern Kashmir\u2019s Sumbal area.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cTwo hundred people joined our party in Sumbal Nowgam,\u201d Shiv Sena (Hindustaan), President Kashmir region, Abdul Khalid Bhat said. \u201cThey are our proud members now. We welcomed them with open arms.\u201d Bhat, who hails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8610","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\/8610","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=8610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/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=8610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}