Srinagar: Lok Sabha MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid on Friday stated his battle will not be towards the Nationwide Convention (NC) or Folks’s Democratic Get together (PDP) however is concentrated on the broader explanation for restoring Jammu and Kashmir’s particular standing which was revoked by the Centre in August 2019.
Rashid, the MP from Baramulla and popularly often called Engineer Rashid, focused NC vice chairman Omar Abdullah and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, for his or her alleged double requirements.
“Our struggle will not be towards NC and PDP. Our struggle is predicated on the restoration of Article 370 and Article 35A. Our purpose is the decision of the Kashmir concern, which these leaders (of NC & PDP) have constantly sidelined,” Rashid stated, addressing a public rally within the Anantnag district of south Kashmir.
“Our so-called regional leaders, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, have been fast to congratulate Arvind Kejriwal on his bail from the Supreme Courtroom, but they criticized my interim bail,” Rashid stated.
“They maintain sit-ins in Delhi and different locations for the discharge of Kejriwal, however have by no means organized any sit-in or protest in favour of Kashmiris languishing in jails inside and out of doors Kashmir. They’ve by no means spoken up for my detention in Tihar both,” he stated.
He additionally criticized Mufti’s tenure because the chief minister, notably her therapy of south Kashmir.
“The folks of south Kashmir as soon as positioned their belief in Mufti and voted for her. However when she got here to energy, she bruised the folks of Kashmir generally, and south Kashmir particularly. She used pellets, bullets, and stuffed jails with the very individuals who voted for her,” Rashid stated.
Rashid walked out of Tihar Jail on Wednesday, after a court docket granted him interim bail until October 2 in a terror funding case in order that he can marketing campaign within the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Meeting polls.
He had been in jail since 2019 following his arrest by the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act within the 2017 terror funding case.
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