{"id":192413,"date":"2026-01-12T16:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=192413"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:46:48","slug":"farooq-abdullah-opposes-separate-statehood-for-jammu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/01\/12\/farooq-abdullah-opposes-separate-statehood-for-jammu.html","title":{"rendered":"Farooq Abdullah opposes separate Statehood for Jammu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182736\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/farooq-abdullah-warning-to-delhi-on-jammu-kashmir-statehood_.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/farooq-abdullah-warning-to-delhi-on-jammu-kashmir-statehood_.webp 1280w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/farooq-abdullah-warning-to-delhi-on-jammu-kashmir-statehood_-390x220.webp 390w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/farooq-abdullah-warning-to-delhi-on-jammu-kashmir-statehood_-780x439.webp 780w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/farooq-abdullah-warning-to-delhi-on-jammu-kashmir-statehood_-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/>Jammu: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the President of National Conference, Farooq Abdullah, has asserted that Jammu and Kashmir are inseparable, firmly rejecting a recent demand by a Bharatiya Janata Party leader to grant separate statehood to the Jammu region by bifurcating the Union Territory.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Farooq Abdullah during his visit to Narwal Fruit Mandi in Jammu said, \u201cNeither Jammu nor Kashmir can be separated from each other. It would be like separating the head from the body \u2014 with Jammu as the head and Kashmir as the torso.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The special status under Article 370 was revoked to occupied Jammu and Kashmir by the BJP-led Indian government in 2019 and the erstwhile state was bifurcated into two union territories \u2014 Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, BJP MLA Sham Lal Sharma stoked a controversy by demanding separation of Jammu over alleged claims of discrimination with the region.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by senior party leaders, including Rattan Lal Gupta and chairman of Scheduled Caste Cell Vijay Lochan, Farooq Abdullah interacted with office bearers of the Narwal Fruit Mandi Association and listened to their issues, assuring them that their concerns would be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no need to worry\u2026 all the promises made to the people will be fulfilled,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the President of National Conference, Farooq Abdullah, has asserted that Jammu and Kashmir are inseparable, firmly rejecting a recent demand by a Bharatiya Janata Party leader to grant separate statehood to the Jammu region by bifurcating the Union Territory. According to Kashmir Media Service, Farooq Abdullah during &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/farooq-abdullah-warning-to-delhi-on-jammu-kashmir-statehood_.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192413","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=192413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192414,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192413\/revisions\/192414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}