New Delhi, June 11: The jailed leader, Engineer Abdul Rashid Sheikh, who recently won the Lok Sabha elections from Baramulla seat, on Tuesday, issued his first message to the voters from jail, saying that sufferings and aspirations of Kashmiris are much bigger than the personal agendas.
Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) Chief, during his meeting with his Lawyer, has thanked the people of north Kashmir for casting their votes in his favour and ensuring his victory, saying that his victory is people’s victory and a referendum against all sorts of oppression against the people of J&K.
Er Rasheed assured people of J&K that he would continue to represent the masses, who have been suffering at all, fronts since decades.
“Let the Modi government and everyone who matters understand the difference between the silence of the graveyard and the real peace. The result is an opportunity to introspect and revisit the policy of controlling J&K through remote control devices and accept the ground realities. Let the people of India be assured that Kashmiris are not enemies of India nor are people proxies of any other country, but by creating false and fake narratives they are being portrayed as villains, which is unacceptable,” he said.
Er Rashid cautioned Kashmiris against all those forces, who need nothing but power, no matter what it may cost to the people of J&K.
“AIP is committed to unite Kashmiris and forget the bitterness with all its political rivals as the party wants to unite Kashmiris to take them out of a sense of defeat. Kashmiris deserve to be listened to at all levels by other stakeholders not as beggars but as citizens and main stakeholders of the J&K. Let us all forget our personal egos and understand that sufferings and aspirations of Kashmiris are much bigger than our personal agendas,” he said.
Pertinently, Er Rasheed has been under incarceration from the last nearly five years. He contested the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls from Baramulla seat and won against his two major rivals including the former chief minister Omar Abdullah and the former minister Sajad Gani Lone.
He defeated his close rival Omar Abdullah by a margin of nearly two lakh votes.
Notably, the party has knocked the doors of court, seeking his release on interim bail to take oath as the new Member of Parliament of Baramulla parliamentary constituency. The next hearing has been listed on June 18.
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