New Delhi, Apr 17 : The member parliament from Baramulla Engineer Rashid said no amount of imprisonment would stop him from speaking for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, as he broke down in the Lok Sabha over his ailing father.
“Even if I take 100 births and am put in jail 100 times, I will continue to speak for the people of Jammu and Kashmir until my last breath,” he said as per news agency Kashmir News Service (KNS).
The parliamentarian alleged that the system wanted to kill every person who has the courage to speak the truth, whether inside or outside jail.
“I know that I may not be able to see my father for the last time. He has been admitted to the hospital for the past 20 days,” he said.
He urged his mother, sister, daughter, sister-in-law and wife, saying, “I swear to you, do not lose hope, do not lose courage.
Forgive me.”
MP Er Rashid as per KNS also questioned the delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir and listed what he called the “real day of women’s power” — including the release of Kashmiri political prisoners, the return of Kashmiri Pandits, and answers for families of those missing since the 1990s.
He said the 33 per cent quota gave a “sense of imperial complex” and argued that education-based empowerment was superior to reservation culture.
“If we really want India to become a superpower, we must move towards empowerment, not reservation,” Er. Rashid added. (KNS)
