{"id":2208,"date":"2014-05-05T16:39:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2014-05-05T16:39:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:39:51","slug":"maqbools-sister-assails-rashid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"Maqbool\u2019s sister assails Rashid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Says don\u2019t play politics over \u2018martyrs\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front founder Mohammad Maqbool Bhat\u2019s family Monday assailed a lawmaker after he raised pro-Maqbool slogans during a poll rally in Handwara.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the Member of Legislative Assembly, Rashid in a poll rally in north Kashmir shouted slogans in favor of Bhat and parliament attack convict Guru. Both of them were executed and buried in New Delhi\u2019s Tihar prison in 1984 and 2013 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to GNS, Mehmooda, one of the sisters of Bhat said: \u201cBeing an MLA, he has no right to shout slogans in favour of Maqbool \u2018Sahab\u2019 and that too in an election rally. Once he leaves Assembly and then he can shout slogans in favor Maqbool. He has nothing to do with him\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said it pains us when they shout these kinds of slogans in election rallies. \u201cIt is vote politics. What has MLA to do with Bhat?\u201d she asked, adding:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cOn the one hand, he has sworn on Indian constitution and on the other, he talks of Bhat. This is unacceptable. He has no right to talk about Bhat\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who take part in elections, in election rallies and cast vote are actually betraying martyrs,\u201d she asked. \u201cIt pains me when I hear slogans of elections. It is unfortunate that these people forget everything. People should completely boycott elections,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said there are \u2018hundreds\u2019 of Bhat in Kashmir and \u201cI ask those who are in election process what answer you would give to martyrs\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Rashid had moved a motion in Jammu and Kashmir assembly that sought to commute the death sentence to Guru. But, he blamed the ruling National Conference and main opposition Peoples Democratic Party for scuttling the motion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says don\u2019t play politics over \u2018martyrs\u2019 Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front founder Mohammad Maqbool Bhat\u2019s family Monday assailed a lawmaker after he raised pro-Maqbool slogans during a poll rally in Handwara. Earlier today, the Member of Legislative Assembly, Rashid in a poll rally in north Kashmir shouted slogans in favor of Bhat and parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}