{"id":55051,"date":"2024-07-05T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T09:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=55051"},"modified":"2024-07-05T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T09:46:59","slug":"srinagars-former-mayor-junaid-mattu-takes-political-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/srinagars-former-mayor-junaid-mattu-takes-political-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Srinagar&#8217;s Former Mayor Junaid Mattu Takes Political Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar, July 05:<\/strong> Former Mayor of J&amp;K\u2019s Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) and leader of Apni Party, Junaid Azim Mattu on Friday announced an interim cessation of his political activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter considerable thought, I announce an interim cessation of all my political activities. A strong conviction has to precede any meaningful work and with all humility at my command, I want to renew my pristine idealism. Will share my views elaborately in a few days,\u201d he said in a post on X-post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mattu served as the mayor of Srinagar SMC for nearly five years from 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Lok Sabha elections, Apni Party candidates both in Srinagar and Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seats forfeited their deposits. The party could not secure much in any of the 36 Assembly segments in these two Lok Sabha seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the election debacle, Apni Party chief Syed Altaf Ahmad Bukhari dissolved the party\u2019s office-bearer bodies, including the youth and women\u2019s wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, July 05: Former Mayor of J&amp;K\u2019s Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) and leader of Apni Party, Junaid Azim Mattu on Friday announced an interim cessation of his political activity. \u201cAfter considerable thought, I announce an interim cessation of all my political activities. A strong conviction has to precede any meaningful work and with all humility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,54,50],"tags":[1032,4511,128,4512,82,1033,4513,4510],"class_list":{"0":"post-55051","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":"category-srinagar","11":"tag-earlypostdaily","12":"tag-former-mayor-junaid-mattu","13":"tag-jammu-and-kashmir","14":"tag-junaid-mattu","15":"tag-kashmir-2","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-political-hiatus","18":"tag-srinagars-former-mayor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55051","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=55051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55053,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55051\/revisions\/55053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}