{"id":51288,"date":"2024-03-22T05:31:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T05:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=51288"},"modified":"2024-03-22T05:31:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T05:31:46","slug":"omar-abdullah-kejriwals-arrest-indicates-ruling-partys-high-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/omar-abdullah-kejriwals-arrest-indicates-ruling-partys-high-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Abdullah: Kejriwal\u2019s Arrest Indicates Ruling Party\u2019s High Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SRINAGAR, March 22: <\/strong>National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah criticized the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, labeling it as a &#8220;blot&#8221; on democracy and indicative of the ruling party&#8217;s &#8220;remarkable degree of nervousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister expressed solidarity with Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In such a democracy. Despite claims of a landslide victory, the ruling administration is displaying a significant level of anxiety. The arrest of an opposition CM by a compliant central agency shortly after the announcement of general elections is a stain on democracy,&#8221; Abdullah stated in a post on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kejriwal, who also serves as the national convenor and chief of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), was arrested on Thursday night by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the scrapped Delhi excise policy 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, March 22: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah criticized the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, labeling it as a &#8220;blot&#8221; on democracy and indicative of the ruling party&#8217;s &#8220;remarkable degree of nervousness.&#8221; The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister expressed solidarity with Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). &#8220;In such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,54],"tags":[1032,128,2086,1033,1852],"class_list":{"0":"post-51288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jammu","8":"category-kashmir","9":"category-latest-news","10":"tag-earlypostdaily","11":"tag-jammu-and-kashmir","12":"tag-kejriwal","13":"tag-latestnews","14":"tag-omar-abdullah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51288","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=51288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51290,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51288\/revisions\/51290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}