SRINAGAR: Marking a seismic shift within the political panorama of Jammu and Kashmir going into the Lok Sabha elections, the granddaughter of the late hardline Hurriyat patriarch, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and the elder daughter of jailed Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) founder Shabir Shah dissociated themselves from ‘separatist ideology’ and pledging their loyalty to “the sovereignty of the Union of India.”
Ruwa Shah, Geelani’s granddaughter, and the DFP founder-leader’s daughter Sama Shabir, put out separate however an identical notices in a neighborhood every day, declaring their allegiance to the ‘Union of India’. “I, Sama Shabir Shah, daughter of Shabir Ahmad Shah, resident of Afandi Bagh, Sanat Nagar, Srinagar, want to clarify that I have not been associated nor have any affiliation with the Democratic Freedom Party, nor do I have any inclination towards the ideology of the Democratic Freedom Party,” the discover quoted Sama as stating.
“It is further clarified that I am a loyal citizen of India and I am not affiliated with any person or any organization which is against the sovereignty of the Union of India,” she added. Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani handed away on September 1, 2021, after a chronic sickness. His demise was seen because the second huge setback to the separatist marketing campaign in Kashmir after the August 5, 2019 abrogation of the constitutional privileges for the erstwhile state below Article 370.
He was additionally a member of the legislative meeting within the erstwhile state from the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Muslim United Front. With the rise of anti-India insurgency within the Valley in 1989, Geelani renounced electoral politics and got here to guide the separatist marketing campaign within the state.
Before his demise, Geelani had been below home arrest for 13 years. He was detained in 2010, below the chief ministership of Omar Abdullah, after he led a mass protest in Kashmir towards the killing of 4 Kashmiri youths in an alleged encounter that left dozens lifeless. However, in 2015, below the PDP regime of Mufti Muhammad Saeed, Geelani was allowed to go away the home for a number of weeks.
However, after elevating anti-India slogans in a public assembly, he was detained and put below home arrest once more till his demise. Since the formation of JKDFP, Shabir Ahmad turned the mouthpiece of the ISI, Pakistan’s major exterior intelligence company that had been dealing with him by way of his Pak/PoK-based consultant Mehmood Ahmed Sagar.Â
