{"id":86725,"date":"2025-03-01T22:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=86725"},"modified":"2025-03-01T22:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:51:51","slug":"budget-session-restoration-of-statehood-congs-primary-agenda-says-karra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/budget-session-restoration-of-statehood-congs-primary-agenda-says-karra\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Session: Restoration of statehood Cong\u2019s primary agenda, says Karra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Says Congress to hold legislators meet first, followed by NC meeting on Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Mar 01 (KNO): Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Tariq Hameed Karra on Saturday said that the party&#8217;s primary agenda in the upcoming budget session of the J&amp;K Legislative Assembly will be the restoration of statehood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Karra, while speaking to the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said the Congress legislators will meet in Jammu on Sunday to devise their strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a query whether NC and Congress legislators will hold a joint meeting before the session commences, Kara said, \u201cNo such meeting has been called.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the anticipated stormy session, particularly with opposition parties like the People&#8217;s Conference and the PDP expected to raise issues like the liquor ban, Karra said, \u201cThe government has its own standing, while the opposition has its democratic rights to raise issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our prime issue remains the restoration of statehood. The confusion surrounding governance today is a direct result of the delay in reinstating statehood, which has also impeded the framing of business rules,&#8221; Karra said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also highlighted that the Congress has transformed the demand for statehood into a people\u2019s movement, beginning with Jammu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pertinently, the last budget session of J&amp;K Assembly took place in 2018 during the PDP-BJP regime in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, which was bifurcated into two Union Territories in August 2019 after abrogation of Article 370.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Conference and the Congress contested the assembly elections last year together. Congress has six MLAs but hasn\u2019t joined the government, while the NC got a clear mandate by bagging more than 40 seats\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says Congress to hold legislators meet first, followed by NC meeting on Sunday &nbsp; Srinagar, Mar 01 (KNO): Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Tariq Hameed Karra on Saturday said that the party&rsquo;s primary agenda in the upcoming budget session of the J&amp;K Legislative Assembly will be the restoration of statehood. &nbsp; Karra, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86727,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86725\/revisions\/86727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}