{"id":17341,"date":"2015-03-03T12:49:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T12:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=17341"},"modified":"2015-03-03T12:52:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T12:52:41","slug":"minister-in-mufti-team-has-state-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=17341","title":{"rendered":"Minister in Mufti Team Has State Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karwar :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new Jammu and Kashmir government has a Karnataka link.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Ashraf Mir, who took oath as a minister in the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Cabinet in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, is married to a girl from this port town.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Bhatkal, especially the Navayath community members, celebrated the news of Mir\u2019s appointment as a minister in the PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Mir was also in the news after he defeated former chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah from Sonawar constituency in last year\u2019s Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>While, Mir secured 14,283 votes, Omar Abdullah managed just 9,500 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Mir married Zareen in Bengaluru in 1996. Zareen is the daughter of Farooq Udyavar, a businessman, who is a resident of Port Road in Bhatkal.<\/p>\n<p>A close relative of the family told Express that Mir and Zareen\u2019s marriage was love-cum-arranged.<\/p>\n<p>Mir and Zareen did\u00a0 MBA at a private college in Bengaluru. At present, Zareen\u2019s parents are residing in Bengaluru as they are renovating their old house in Bhatkal town.<\/p>\n<p>The family members are planning to visit Srinagar to congratulate Mir.<\/p>\n<p>source: http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com \/ The New Indian Express \/ Home&gt; States&gt; Karnataka \/ by Marx Tejaswi \/ March 02nd, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karwar : The new Jammu and Kashmir government has a Karnataka link. Mohammad Ashraf Mir, who took oath as a minister in the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Cabinet in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, is married to a girl from this port town. Residents of Bhatkal, especially the Navayath community members, celebrated the news of Mir\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=17341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minister in Mufti Team Has State Link<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-leaders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17343,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions\/17343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}