{"id":187230,"date":"2025-11-05T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=187230"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:56:14","slug":"congress-rules-out-joining-iiojk-cabinet-until-statehood-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/11\/05\/congress-rules-out-joining-iiojk-cabinet-until-statehood-restoration.html","title":{"rendered":"Congress rules out joining IIOJK cabinet until statehood restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-187231\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/xzx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"171\" \/>Srinagar: In a significant political development, the Congress party in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir has declared it will not join the territory&#8217;s cabinet until full statehood is restored.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Congress IIOJK president Tariq Hamid Karra in a statement in Srinagar reiterated the party&#8217;s &#8220;principled stand,&#8221; stating, &#8220;We have a principled stand that as long as Jammu and Kashmir doesn\u2019t get statehood, we will not be part of the cabinet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes amid indications of a potential cabinet expansion by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who had previously stated he was actively considering inducting more ministers after the conclusion of by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>Karra condemned the delay in restoring statehood, framing the Congress&#8217;s &#8220;Ghar-Ghar Dastak&#8221; (Knock on Every Door) movement as a fight to bring back the &#8220;lost dignity and honour&#8221; to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. He emphasized that the movement is not merely a slogan but a strong reiteration of the party&#8217;s commitment to taking the statehood fight to its logical conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: In a significant political development, the Congress party in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir has declared it will not join the territory&#8217;s cabinet until full statehood is restored. According to Kashmir Media Service, Congress IIOJK president Tariq Hamid Karra in a statement in Srinagar reiterated the party&#8217;s &#8220;principled stand,&#8221; stating, &#8220;We have a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-187230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/xzx.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187230","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187232,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187230\/revisions\/187232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}