{"id":33434,"date":"2026-10-27T18:53:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=33434"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:53:45","slug":"wont-join-cabinet-until-jk-regains-statehood-karra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/wont-join-cabinet-until-jk-regains-statehood-karra\/","title":{"rendered":"Won\u2019t join cabinet until J&#038;K regains statehood: Karra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Oct 27: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Tariq Hameed Karra on Tuesday said his party would not join the Omar Abdullah-led government, reiterating that its stand on the issue had been clear for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was the Cabinet expansion, and those who were chosen took oath,\u201d Karra said while speaking to reporters, as per the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO).<\/p>\n<p>He said the party\u2019s stand was clear that it would not join the Cabinet in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been saying for two years that we won\u2019t join the Cabinet. There is no need to repeatedly explain why Congress is not joining the Cabinet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress has chosen to stay out of the Omar Abdullah-led Cabinet over the delay in restoring statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Karra said the party would not accept any ministerial position as long as Jammu and Kashmir remained a Union Territory. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Oct 27: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Tariq Hameed Karra on Tuesday said his party would not join the Omar Abdullah-led government, reiterating that its stand on the issue had been clear for the past two years. \u201cToday was the Cabinet expansion, and those who were chosen took oath,\u201d Karra said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33435,"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":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434","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=33434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33436,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434\/revisions\/33436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}