The meeting comes a day before NC vice-president Omar Abdullah is set to be sworn in as the new CM.
Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, met Lt Governor Manoj Sinha at the Raj Bhawan Saturday. The meeting comes a day before NC vice-president Omar Abdullah is set to be sworn in as the new CM.
This is Rashid’s first meeting with Sinha. In a statement it issued about the meeting, Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) said it was aimed to discuss the “burning issues” of North Kashmir, which Rashid represents in Parliament.
“Er Rashid urged LG to relook in the cases of terminated govt. employees and sought LG’s intervention to release all prisoners lodged in and outside jails of J&K. He also briefed LG about the difficulties being faced by the people in the name of police verifications and demanded that harassment of youth and others in the name of verification by the police may be immediately stopped,” AIP said in a statement.
It further said: “Er Rashid also asked LG to convey to the central government that if it could talk to people of Ladakh and North East, why couldn’t talk to people of Jammu and Kashmir to resolve their legitimate issues and political rights”.
Rashid urged the LG to ensure that human rights, self-respect and dignity of common people needed to be maintained, AIP said.
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