Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 20: The former MLA from Langate Engineer Rashid, who is currently lodged in jail on UAPA charges, will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Baramulla constituency.
The Awami Ittehad Party leader Abdul Rashid Sheikh alias Engineer Rashid, 56, who is a former MLA, will contest the LS polls from Baramulla constituency.
“The Political Affairs Committee of the Awami Ittehad Party decided that we will field Engineer Rashid as our candidate from the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency,” Firdous Baba, the party’s spokesperson, said here today.
He hoped that Rashid will be released from prison before the elections.
“In case that does not happen, it has been decided that Rashid will contest the polls from jail. Our Constitution allows an accused person, who is not convicted, to contest elections from jail,” Baba added.
Rashid was first elected to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly from Langate in Handwara area of Kupwara district in 2008 and re-elected in 2014.
He contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Baramulla, finishing in third place.
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