{"id":199171,"date":"2026-04-28T13:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=199171"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:48:23","slug":"ltija-mufti-leads-pdp-protest-in-srinagar-to-restore-urdu-as-official-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/04\/28\/ltija-mufti-leads-pdp-protest-in-srinagar-to-restore-urdu-as-official-language.html","title":{"rendered":"ltija Mufti leads PDP protest in Srinagar to restore Urdu as official language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: People\u2019s Democratic Party leader Iltija Mufti, along with party workers, staged a protest in Srinagar over the Urdu language issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, protesters said Kashmiris should struggle for the restoration of Urdu as the state language, stating that Hindi is being forced upon them.<\/p>\n<p>Iltija Mufti, who heads the PDP\u2019s youth wing, said the protest aimed to highlight concerns over the sidelining of Urdu, historically the official language of Jammu &amp; Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKashmiris must fight to restore Urdu while Hindi is being imposed on us,\u201d demonstrators said during the protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: People\u2019s Democratic Party leader Iltija Mufti, along with party workers, staged a protest in Srinagar over the Urdu language issue. According to Kashmir Media Service, protesters said Kashmiris should struggle for the restoration of Urdu as the state language, stating that Hindi is being forced upon them. Iltija Mufti, who heads the PDP\u2019s youth &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199171","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=199171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199172,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199171\/revisions\/199172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}