Srinagar, October 09: - Congress MLA’s condemned the assaulted on Independent MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly yesterday.
In a joint statement issued by Congress MLA’s including Ajaz Ahmed Khan, G. M Saroori, Haji Abdul Rashid Dar, Vikar Rasool, Mohd Amin Bhat, Usman Majeed, Gulzar Ahmed Wani, Asgar Ali Karbalaie, Mumtaz Ahmed Khan and Chowdhary Akram condemned the attack, saying the BJP was bringing a dangerous political culture in J&K state by unleashing its hoodlums and also termed the attack as ‘gunda gardi’ which they said was” condemnable and unacceptable”.
"This is a deliberate attempt of frustrated BJP MLA’s to attack on Engineer Rashid just to divert their failure in the government.”Such attempts would not be tolerated and police should take stern action. All assaulters should be arrested," Congress leaders demanded.
"It is extremely shocking that the BJP MLA’s into the Assembly beaten/assaulted an Independent MLA in presence of CM J&K, Speaker and MLA’s," the statement said. The BJP-PDP government should make its stand clear about what kind of conduct its MLA’s were preaching, the Congress MLA’s demanded.
The entire opposition, including the Congress and National Conference, walked out of the House to condemn the incident.
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