{"id":194032,"date":"2026-02-03T22:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=194032"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:46:02","slug":"iiojk-congress-leader-calls-for-cross-party-efforts-on-statehood-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/02\/03\/iiojk-congress-leader-calls-for-cross-party-efforts-on-statehood-restoration.html","title":{"rendered":"IIOJK Congress leader calls for cross-party efforts on statehood restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Congress Legislature Party le<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194033\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/mir.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>ader Ghulam Ahmad Mir has called for united efforts cutting across party lines for the restoration of statehood to the territory and urged Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to convene an all-party meeting to build consensus and approach New Delhi on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, participating in the discussion on the Lieutenant Governor\u2019s address in the IIOJK Assembly on Tuesday, Mir emphasized that there was a need to take all political parties on board to persuade the Indian government to restore statehood to the territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEfforts were being made over the last six months to convene an all-party meeting on this issue. We need to build consensus and approach Delhi to ensure restoration of statehood,\u201d Mir said.<\/p>\n<p>Mir criticized the August 5, 2019 decision that abrogated Article 370 and bifurcated occupied Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories, calling it a unilateral move that ignored the people and their representatives. \u201cThere was immense suffering and hardship. The state was bifurcated and downgraded without consultation with the people or their elected representatives. As a result, people lost their aspirations and expectations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the so-called democratic processes in IIOJK were revived under various pressures, including the Supreme Court\u2019s direction to hold Assembly elections before September 2024. \u201cHad the Supreme Court not ruled that elections must be held and a government formed, perhaps none of us would be sitting in this House today,\u201d Mir said.<\/p>\n<p>Mir stressed that people across occupied Jammu and Kashmir, irrespective of their political affiliations, feel aggrieved as the powers that should have been vested with the elected government and legislators are still lacking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Congress Legislature Party leader Ghulam Ahmad Mir has called for united efforts cutting across party lines for the restoration of statehood to the territory and urged Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to convene an all-party meeting to build consensus and approach New Delhi on the issue. According &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194032","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\/2026\/02\/mir.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194032","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=194032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194034,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194032\/revisions\/194034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}