Shehla Rashid quits electoral politics in Kashmir

NEW DELHI: Six months after her foray into mainstream politics, former JNU student leader Shehla Rashid announced on Wednesday she is quitting electoral politics in Kashmir following the move to hold block development council elections, saying she can’t be a party to the exercise of legitimising “suppression” of people.


Rashid, who became a prominent face of student activism following a controversy over a 2016 event at JNU during which alleged anti- national slogans were raised, had earlier this year joined Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement floated by former IAS officer

Shah Faisal

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The former JNUSU vice president said she was compelled to dissociate “with the electoral mainstream in Kashmir” due to the move to hold BDC elections later this month, which she termed a “sham electoral exercise”.

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