Just minutes after coming out of Tihar Jail, Rashid, said, “After remaining in jail for 5.5 years, I feel myself stronger and proud of my people.”
Baramulla member of Parliament Engineer Abdul Rashid, on coming out of jail after more than five years on Wednesday, vowed to fight against the Prime Minister’s ‘Naya Kashmir narrative’ and said that his win in Lok Sabha polls was a referendum against Modi’s policy of the Abrogation of Article 370 and 35A.
Just minutes after coming out of Tihar Jail, Rashid, who is also accused of being a BJP proxy by J&K politicians, said, “After remaining in jail for 5.5 years, I feel myself stronger and proud of my people.”
Rashid was arrested in 2019 in connection with a terror funding case and on Tuesday a Delhi court granted him bail till October 2 to allow him to campaign for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls.
“I take a pledge that I will not let down my people. I take a pledge that I will fight Modi’s narrative of ‘Naya Kashmir’ which has miserably failed in Jammu and Kashmir. People have rejected his narrative. People of J&K have rejected whatsoever he did on August 5, 2019. The vote for me was a referendum against Modi’s policy, especially the Abrogation of Article 370 and 35A,” he said.
“I am committed to work for the welfare of my people and for a peaceful resolution to the Kashmir issue. I want to tell Modi ji ‘don’t fear, don’t scare’, we won’t be scared,” he stressed.
BJP leader and J&K’s election campaign incharge Ram Madhav responded in a tweet: “This rank separatist, in jail for last 5 years under UAPA for indulging in anti-India activities, is out on bail to further vitiate Valley politics. Look at the language… anti-Modi rants, restoring Art 370, freeing terrorists from jails… no different from what Omar or Mehbooba or even others like Lone, NC, PDP or PC – d Gupkar Gang – is saying. He wants to defeat Modi’s dream of Naya Kashmir. We accept the challenge. Naya Kashmir’s March will go on unrelentingly.”