{"id":51029,"date":"2024-03-15T10:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T10:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=51029"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T10:02:14","slug":"omar-urges-ec-to-restore-democracy-in-jk-calls-for-announcement-of-ls-and-assembly-poll-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/omar-urges-ec-to-restore-democracy-in-jk-calls-for-announcement-of-ls-and-assembly-poll-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Urges EC to Restore Democracy in J&amp;K, Calls for Announcement of LS and Assembly Poll Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SRINAGAR, Mar 15:<\/strong> National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah has emphasized the Election Commission of India&#8217;s (ECI) crucial role in revitalizing democracy in Jammu and Kashmir by announcing dates for both parliamentary and assembly polls in the Union Territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expressing his sentiments to reporters in Srinagar, Abdullah stated, &#8220;We have no expectations from the Election Commission. The EC should play its role as part of its mission of maintaining democracy. It has been 10 years that J-K has not seen an assembly election.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pointing to the significance of the recently submitted report by the former President Ram Nath Kovind-led committee on &#8216;one nation one election,&#8217; Abdullah underscored the opportunity to initiate this policy starting from Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The former president has submitted a report on &#8216;one nation, one election.&#8217; What can we hope for from them: drum-beating &#8216;one nation one election&#8217; if you do not start from J-K. Is it to fool the people?&#8221; he remarked. &#8220;There have to be elections in J-K and it is a golden opportunity. Let them restore democracy fully here and announce the dates of both Parliament as well as assembly elections,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to inquiries regarding potential meetings of the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) to address internal differences, Abdullah deferred the matter to the alliance&#8217;s office bearers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If there is (a meeting), you ask (alliance president) Farooq Abdullah. I am not an office bearer in the PAGD, I belong to NC. Ask those who hold an office in the PAGD,&#8221; he clarified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When questioned about the NC&#8217;s plans to announce candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Abdullah simply stated, &#8220;whenever we wish to.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, Mar 15: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah has emphasized the Election Commission of India&#8217;s (ECI) crucial role in revitalizing democracy in Jammu and Kashmir&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,54],"tags":[1032,128,1033,3413,1731],"class_list":["post-51029","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu","category-kashmir","category-latest-news","tag-earlypostdaily","tag-jammu-and-kashmir","tag-latestnews","tag-ls-and-assembly-poll","tag-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51031,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51029\/revisions\/51031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}