{"id":48039,"date":"2018-11-22T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=48039"},"modified":"2018-11-22T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:13:06","slug":"jk-governor-feels-democracy-is-outdated-chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/jk-governor-feels-democracy-is-outdated-chidambaram\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;K Governor feels democracy is outdated: Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<\/p>\n<p>Taking umbrage to the sudden dissolution of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, former Union Minister and Congress veteran P Chidambaram on Thursday claimed that for BJP-appointed Governor Satya Pal Malik, parliamentary democracy was \u201coutdated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A day after Malik\u2019s dramatic move dissolving the House shortly after the Peoples Democratic Party , National Conference and the Congress came together to stake claim to form a government, Chidambaram took to Twitter to express his outrage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as no one staked a claim to form government, Jammu and Kashmir Governor was happy to keep Assembly under suspension. The moment someone staked a claim, he dissolved the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParliamentary democracy standing on its head,\u201d said the former Union finance minister.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Westminster model of democracy is outdated. Like in all other matters, it is the Gujarat model that has appealed to the J&amp;K Governor,\u201d said Chidambaram.<\/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>New Delhi Taking umbrage to the sudden dissolution of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, former Union Minister and Congress veteran P Chidambaram on Thursday claimed that for BJP-appointed Governor Satya Pal Malik, parliamentary democracy was \u201coutdated\u201d. A day after Malik\u2019s dramatic move dissolving the House shortly after the Peoples Democratic Party , National Conference and [&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":48040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48039","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=48039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48041,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48039\/revisions\/48041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}