{"id":19575,"date":"2026-05-11T18:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=19575"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:52:18","slug":"mp-ruhullah-slams-cm-omar-over-alcohol-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/mp-ruhullah-slams-cm-omar-over-alcohol-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Ruhullah slams CM Omar over alcohol remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tangmarg, May 11:\u00a0<\/strong>Member Parliament from Srinagar and National Conference leader, Aga Ruhullah Mehdi on Monday castigated Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over his remarks on alcohol and termed it as \u201csheer arrogance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talking to reporters, Ruhullah launched a sharp attack on CM Omar Abdullah over his recent statement that \u201cno one is forced to take drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruhullah said his (CM Omar\u2019s) response was \u201carrogant, unethical and illogical\u201d and contrary to the promises made by the NC during the election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He said the National Conference had assured people that liquor shops would be regulated and alcohol consumption restricted for locals. \u201cInstead of assuring people that action will be taken, people were scolded and labelled. This is not what people voted for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ruhullah further accused the Chief Minister of using language that reflected the \u201ctagging and stereotyping\u201d of Kashmiris. He said the people of Jammu and Kashmir had voted against such \u201carrogance\u201d and expected the elected government to stand for public sentiment and constitutional protections<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tangmarg, May 11:\u00a0Member Parliament from Srinagar and National Conference leader, Aga Ruhullah Mehdi on Monday castigated Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over his remarks on alcohol and termed it as \u201csheer arrogance.\u201d Talking to reporters, Ruhullah launched a sharp attack on CM Omar Abdullah over his recent statement that \u201cno one is forced to take drugs.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19577,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19575\/revisions\/19577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}