{"id":164765,"date":"2025-01-04T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=164765"},"modified":"2025-01-04T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:09:24","slug":"karan-singh-demands-restoration-of-full-statehood-strengthening-of-domicile-laws-in-iiojk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/01\/04\/karan-singh-demands-restoration-of-full-statehood-strengthening-of-domicile-laws-in-iiojk.html","title":{"rendered":"Karan Singh demands restoration of full statehood, strengthening of domicile laws in IIOJK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164766 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/karan-singh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"178\" \/>Srinagar: Veteran Congress leader Karan Singh has demanded restoration of full statehood to Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that its downgrading to a Union Territory is totally unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, in a media interview, Karan Singh, former Sadr-e-Riyasat, said, \u201cI want full statehood to be restored. No ifs and buts. Proper statehood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that alongside the restoration of statehood, the territory\u2019s domiciliary laws should be strengthened to prevent land sales to outsiders.<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the demotion of IIOJK, pointing out that while the Indian government claims it as the &#8220;Crown of India,&#8221; the territory now stands below Indian states like Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. &#8220;This is something that must be remedied,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Karan Singh also remarked that the political landscape of occupied Jammu and Kashmir drastically changed after the illegal abrogation of Article 370.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Veteran Congress leader Karan Singh has demanded restoration of full statehood to Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that its downgrading to a Union Territory is totally unacceptable. According to Kashmir Media Service, in a media interview, Karan Singh, former Sadr-e-Riyasat, said, \u201cI want full statehood to be restored. No ifs and buts. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/karan-singh.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}