By Jehangir Ali
Srinagar: A Delhi court’s move to grant bail to Engineer Rashid, the Lok Sabha MP from north Kashmir, is likely to fire up his party’s electoral campaign ahead of the assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir.
Rashid, who has been languishing in New Delhi’s Tihar jail on terror funding charges, was granted interim bail on Tuesday (September 10) by Delhi’s Patiala House courts when the assembly elections, which are being held after a decade, are scheduled to commence in J&K.
The firebrand leader of the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) and two-time MLA from north Kashmir’s Langate constituency had moved the court for interim bail in order to campaign for his party’s candidates ahead of the assembly elections, which are scheduled to be held in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1.
The court allowed his petition and granted him bail till October 2.
Although the AIP leader faces serious charges of terror funding, the interim bail granted to him by the Delhi court is likely to fan rumours that the AIP is a proxy of the BJP-led Union government and that its leader had “struck a deal” in exchange for his release from jail.
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