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\u201cJailed MP Engineer Rashid to Stage Hunger Strike in Tihar, Protesting Denial of Kashmiri Rights\u201d<\/strong> Delhi, June 27:<\/strong> The hunger strike also aims to highlight the deafening silence of national parties<\/strong> on the plight of hundreds of Kashmiris languishing in Tihar and other prisons under draconian laws like the UAPA<\/strong>, merely for holding political beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to AIP Chief Spokesperson Inam Un Nabi<\/strong>, Engineer Rashid conveyed his decision during a recent meeting with his family, asserting that the hypocrisy of both the BJP and Congress<\/strong>\u2014as they accuse each other of suppressing democracy\u2014must be exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is unfortunate that both parties leave no stone unturned<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cJailed MP Engineer Rashid to Stage Hunger Strike in Tihar, Protesting Denial of Kashmiri Rights\u201d\u2014 Slams BJP & Congress for \u201cShared Hypocrisy\u201d on Democracy Delhi, June 27:Amid the ongoing political slugfest between the BJP and Congress over the 1975 Emergency and allegations of authoritarianism, jailed Member of Parliament and Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) President Engineer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-jammu-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Amid the ongoing political slugfest between the BJP and Congress over the 1975 Emergency and allegations of authoritarianism, jailed Member of Parliament and Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) President Engineer Rashid<\/strong> has announced that he will observe a 24-hour hunger strike<\/strong> inside Tihar Jail\u2014from 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 28, to 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 29\u2014in protest against the continued denial of democratic rights to Kashmiris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n