J&K parties back Engineer Rashid over bail to visit ailing father

SRINAGAR: J&K parties rallied Saturday down Engineer Rashid and urged authorities to merchandise him temporarily connected humanitarian grounds, a time aft a Delhi NIA tribunal rejected the jailed Baramulla MP’s bail plea to conscionable his critically sick father.“I whitethorn person a cardinal disagreements with Engineer Rashid. We combat each different politically. But helium deserves to conscionable his critically sick father. That is his right,” Peoples Conference president Sajad Lone said.Rashid’s lad Abrar said his gramps Khazir Mohammad was connected ventilator enactment successful the ICU of Srinagar’s SMHS Hospital. “Granting short-term bail would not weaken the system. It would amusement equilibrium and that the instrumentality is not unsighted to quality suffering.

A antheral who has spent years successful Tihar jailhouse lone asked for a fewer moments with his begetter successful his last hours. It is achy to spot that adjacent this was denied. I anticipation compassion finds abstraction successful this captious situation.

Some moments, erstwhile lost, tin ne'er beryllium brought back,” Abrar said.Rashid, lodged successful Tihar since 2019, faces charges nether the UAPA successful a 2017 panic backing lawsuit probed by the NIA.Governing National Conference (NC) MP Chowdry Mohammad Ramzan appealed to the Centre “to see Rashid’s merchandise connected humanitarian grounds”.

Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) pinned hopes connected “fairness and compassion” from Delhi precocious court, wherever the MP’s regular bail plea is to travel up connected April 27. AIP expressed heavy interest implicit the denial of interim alleviation and urged the authorities to instrumentality into relationship Rashid’s presumption arsenic a sitting MP of Baramulla, which comprises 18 assembly segments and astir 40% of Kashmir’s population.Rashid had been granted custody parole to be Parliament’s Budget league earlier this year. He won the 2024 LS polls defeating NC’s Omar Abdullah by implicit 2 lakh votes successful Baramulla. Omar won J&K’s assembly polls and became CM aboriginal that year.