\u201cTalked with me over phone from Tihar jail to prevent election of Irfan Panditpuri as DDC chairperson\u201d<\/p>\n
KNO Correspondent<\/p>\n
Srinagar, Sep 16 (KNO): Peoples Conference president Sajad Gani Lone on Monday claimed that Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) president Er. Rashid is \u201cNew Delhi\u2019s remote- controlled toy\u201d out to \u201csilence\u201d Kashmiris.<\/p>\n
Addressing a news conference, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Lone said that Er. Rashid\u2019s release is part of BJP\u2019s plan. \u201cI have never called anyone as an agent. He should tell where he was for the past two months. He was not in jail. We have never seen such a badly executed plan of New Delhi in Kashmir from 1947,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Sajad Lone said that Rashid has no authority to criticize him. \u201cWho is he to target me? He is himself in the dock,\u201d Sajad replied to a question on his criticism by Rashid.<\/p>\n
Lone said that Rashid has been released to humiliate and browbeat Kashmiris. \u201cHe is behaving like a hooligan released to silence those who talk,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Lone said that Rashid was using filthy and abusive language against female politicians.<\/p>\n
Lone also said that Rashid\u2019s brother met him to offer support to him in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in lieu of support to them in Langate assembly seat.<\/p>\n
Lone said Rashid himself talked with him over phone from Tihar jail to prevent election of PC leader Irfan Panditpuri as chairperson of DDC Kupwara.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis told me over phone of his brother that he will join PC on the condition that you shouldn\u2019t appoint Panditpuri as chairperson of district development council (DDC) Kupwara,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Without naming anyone, Lone said some governmental and non- governmental agencies are trying to pressurise them to give safe passage to a candidate in one of the assembly segments of Kupwara district.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey shouldn\u2019t waste their time. There is no question of giving safe passage to anyone. We are not scared and we won\u2019t be scared,\u201d Lone said\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Talked with me over phone from Tihar jail to prevent election of Irfan Panditpuri as DDC chairperson” KNO Correspondent Srinagar, Sep 16 (KNO): Peoples Conference president Sajad Gani Lone on Monday claimed that Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) president Er. Rashid is “New Delhi’s remote- controlled toy” out to “silence” Kashmiris. Addressing a news conference, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81648,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81646\/revisions\/81648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}