Afzal Guru’s brother to contest J&Okay polls from Sopore
Srinagar, Sep 10: The 2011 Parliament assault convict Afzal Guru’s elder brother Ajaz Ahmad Guru will contest the meeting elections as an unbiased from the Sopore meeting phase.
Ajaz Guru, who took voluntary retirement from the animal husbandry division in 2014, is presently working as a contractor and can submit his kind both on Tuesday or Wednesday. The final day for submitting the nomination is Thursday.
Aijaz, 58, stated he was going to contest elections as an unbiased candidate, including, “When everyone seems to be contesting elections why shouldn’t I. I’ve a distinct ideology than my brother however I’ll struggle for these youths who’ve been arrested in fabricated instances by police together with my son Shoiab who was arrested 9 months in the past by police in a fabricated case.”
He stated his son was languishing in jail on false prices earlier than citing the current victory of Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid. “When Engineer Rashid’s son Abrar Rashid campaigned for his father. Why can’t I marketing campaign for my son who’s finding out in Pune. I’ll show my son didn’t do something flawed,” he stated, including that he’ll spotlight the instances of different harmless people who find themselves in jail on false prices.
Afzal Guru was hanged and buried in Tihar on February 9, 2013, after being convicted for the 2001 assault on Parliament. He was hanged for his position, triggering mass protests within the Valley. His physique was not handed over to his household in north Kashmir’s Sopore city and was as an alternative buried contained in the jail premises. Activists and folks in Kashmir have been crucial of the hanging.
Afzal is survived by his spouse who reside individually in Baramulla city.
Ajaz Guru, nonetheless, stated he received’t search votes within the identify of his brother. “My ideology is totally different. I consider that the folks of Kashmir have been betrayed by each political chief, some within the identify of autonomy, self rule, and a few within the identify ‘Azadi’. Everyone betrayed the folks of Kashmir,” he stated.
Sopore was thought-about a stronghold of separatist chief and Jamaat ideologue Syed Ali Geelani, and voters stayed away from polling up to now few many years. That modified within the current Lok Sabha elections, with greater than 44% registering their alternative within the Sopore meeting phase. In 2014, Sopore elected Congress candidate Haji Rashid amid low voting. This time, round a dozen locals have already expressed their need to contest the elections.–(Hindustan Occasions)
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