MP Engineer Rashid released from prison on bail, vows to challenge Modi’s ‘Naya Kashmir’ promise
The legislator from Baramulla was granted interim bail till October 2 to allow him to campaign for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.
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Jammu and Kashmir MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh was released from Delhi’s Tihar Jail on Wednesday, a day after he was granted interim bail in a terror-funding case.
Speaking to reporters outside the prison, the 57-year-old Lok Sabha MP from Baramulla vowed to fight Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s narrative of “Naya Kashmir”.
Delhi’s Patiala House Court granted Sheikh bail till October 2 to allow him to campaign for the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party has 34 candidates in the poll race, reported The Indian Express.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday released its manifesto for the elections, with Union home minister Amit Shah promising to convert Jammu and Kashmir from a “terrorist hotspot to a tourist spot”.
“I am a victim of the Bharatiya Janata Party,” said Sheikh, who is popularly known as Engineer Rashid. “I will fight against Modi’s ideology till my last breath...I am coming to Kashmir to unite my people, not to divide them.”
“I want to tell Omar [Abdullah] and Mehbooba [Mufti], my fight is for the people, I don’t want to belittle my sacrifice and stature by talking about them,” Sheikh added.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Sheikh defeated National Conference leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah by more than two lakh votes from...
