{"id":43860,"date":"2018-10-06T11:37:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T11:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=43860"},"modified":"2018-10-06T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T11:37:01","slug":"elections-an-exercise-in-futility-says-mirwaiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/elections-an-exercise-in-futility-says-mirwaiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections an exercise in futility, says Mirwaiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar<br \/>\nSeparatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday urged the boycott of the upcoming elections, describing them as an \u201cexercise in futility\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cHolding elections, whether panchayat or parliamentary, has no value. It is an exercise in futility as the essence of this process lies first in the establishment of democratic principles and institutions,\u201d Mirwaiz said while addressing a gathering of worshippers at the Jamia Masjid here.<br \/>\nThe separatist leader said the democratic institutions in the region had not been allowed to flourish. \u201cInstead, the reverse has taken place through the use of extreme force and authoritarianism. Any electoral process in such a place becomes a mere eyewash,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar Separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday urged the boycott of the upcoming elections, describing them as an \u201cexercise in futility\u201d. \u201cHolding elections, whether panchayat or parliamentary, has no value. It is an exercise in futility as the essence of this process lies first in the establishment of democratic principles and institutions,\u201d Mirwaiz said [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43862,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860\/revisions\/43862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}