Jammu-Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024: Engineer Rashid said that irrespective of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly election results, the Union Territory's control will lie with Delhi.
J-K elections 2024: Polling to elect 90 members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly will take place in three phases. The elections will be held on September 18, September 25 and October 1.
Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid was arrested in 2016 in a terror funding case. He was held under the UAPA law. Since then he has been incarcerated in Tihar jail. After becoming MP from Baramulla, he applied for interim bail to take oath in the parliament.
Engineer Rashid defeated National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah by a margin of 2,04,142 votes. While Rashid garnered 4,72,481 votes, Abdullah was polled 2,68,339 votes.
Both the incarcerated members will have to seek permission of the speaker of the house to remain absent. Meanwhile, if they get convicted during their tenure, the would lose their constituency immediately.
A Delhi court on Saturday sent former Jammu and Kashmir Independent lawmaker Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Rashid Engineer to National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till August 14 in a terror funding case involving 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Mohd. Saeed.
Srinagar: Awami Ittehad Party president Sheikh Abdul Rashid today called for a special session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly to pass a resolution demanding complete restoration of the autonomy which the state enjoys
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