SRINAGAR: Member of Parliament for North Kashmir, Engineer Rasheed, who was released from Tihar Jail on Wednesday after being granted bail in a terror funding case, landed in Srinagar on Thursday and immediately bowed on the road to thank the Almighty. He asserted that his fight was much bigger than the one being fought by Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti.
Soon after landing in Srinagar after a gap of five years, Rasheed, bowed down on the main road, kissed the ground, and broke down.
“This is my land,” he said, speaking to reporters. When asked about the allegations levelled against him by Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, Er Rasheed replied: “I am fighting a battle that Omar and Mehbooba cannot fight. My fight is much bigger than theirs.”
He added that he seeks self-respect, peace with dignity, and not the peace of a graveyard. “I will fight for my people who punctured Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claims of Naya Kashmir through their votes,” he said.
Er Rasheed is headed for Baramulla district, where he will address a gathering. He has been granted interim bail by the Delhi court until October 2. —(KNO)
