‘Gun Can’t Be A Solution’: Hurriyat Leader Geelani Joins PDP Ahead Of J-K Assembly Polls
Talking to reporters after the joining the PDP ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024, former separatist leader and Hurriyat Conference Member Syed Salim Geelani stressed that terrorism cannot be a solution to the Kashmir issue which can only be resolved politically.
Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024: Stressing that the Kashmir limitation can best be resolved by technique of political technique, former separatist leader and Hurriyat Convention member Syed Salim Geelani joined the Humans’s Democratic Get jointly (PDP) on Sunday on the get together’s place of business in Srinagar in presence of get together chief Mehbooba Mufti.
Conversing to reporters after the changing into a member of the former ruling get together, Geelani pressured that terrorism are not able to deal with to be a method to the Kashmir limitation which may best be resolved politically.
“Gun are not able to deal with to be a answer. It as a count of truth is the most priceless end result of the retailer lives which are being misplaced to violence,” the former separatist observed.
Asked why he determined to sign on for the PDP, Geelani asserted that the get together is the most priceless one which fights for the rights of the Kashmiri human beings.
“PDP is a party which talks about democratic rights, human rights and political rights of human beings. It talks about political method to Kashmir limitation … So I felt it be miles the true get together to sign on for,” he observed.
Welcoming Geelani into the PDP fold, get together chief Mehboob Mufti observed it became good that the former separatist leader wants peaceful resolution of the Kashmir limitation.
“We requested Geelani to contest the elections on a PDP ticket but he has expressed incapacity to achieve that. He observed any one else should get a hazard to contest,” she launched.
A former trouble-free council member of the Hurriyat Convention (M) faction led by cleric-separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Salim Geelani became as soon as proposal of a shut aide of jailed separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah.
Notbaly, former Congress leader Altaf Ahmad Malik became amongst slightly about a other leaders to sign on for the PDP.
Meanwhile, on the a number of hand, Countrywide Convention leader Babu Jagjiwan Lal and former PDP chief spokesperson Suhail Bukhari on Sunday joined Congress.
JKPCC chief Tariq Hameed Karra welcomed each the leaders into the get together’s fold.
On Saturday, two former MLAs and a rights activist — Mumtaz Khan (Gulabgarh) and Abdul Rahim As a a number of (Konernag), and Irfan Hafeez Lone — additionally joined the Congress.
Final month, the Election Commission announced assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, so one will likely be held in three phases on September 18, 25 and October 1. The counting of votes would take location October 4 and consequences declared on the equal day, the EC observed.
(With PTI inputs)
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