Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Jailed candidate Engineer Rashid ignites
political firestorm in Baramulla
Deccan Herald
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Srinagar: In the verdant landscape of Baramulla, a parliament constituency nestled in the northern reaches of Kashmir, the political temperatures reached to crescendo in recent days driven by the widespread influence of jailed independent candidate Engineer Rashid.
Known for his fiery rhetoric and controversial background, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, aka Engineer Rashid, was arrested by the NIA in a terror funding case in 2019 and has been lodged in Tihar jail since then.
Despite being...