Another BJP leader shot at in Kashmir

ABDUL HAMID NAJAR, DISTRICT PRESIDENT OF THE BUDGAM BJP OTHER BACKWARD CLASS (OBC) MORCHA, WAS ATTACKED WHEN HE WAS ON A MORNING WALK

SRINAGAR: Unidentified men shot and injured Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Sunday.

It was the third attack on a BJP leader in Kashmir in five days, prompting the party to demand more security for its cadre.

Abdul Hamid Najar, district president of the Budgam BJP Other Backward Class (OBC) Morcha, was attacked when he was on a morning walk.

He was injured in the stomach and was admitted to SMHS Hospital in Srinagar for treatment.kashmir’s inspector general of police Vijay Kumar said that unknown persons opened fire on Najar of Ompora near a railway bridge.

The BJP and Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party condemned the attack on the BJP leader.

BJP state spokesman Altaf Thakur said that Najar was affiliated with the party. ‘The attacks on unarmed people like Hamid Najar is barbaric and inhuman. The police must track down the attackers,’’ he said.

On Thursday, unidentified gunmen killed Sajjad Ahmad Khanday, who was sarpach of Vessu village in Qazigund block in Kulgam. Khanday was shot by gunmen close to his house. On Tuesday night, another sarpanch, Arif Ahmad Sha, was shot by suspected militants near his home in Akhran village of

Devsar in Kulgam. He was hit in his neck and his condition is said to be critical.

After the attack on the BJP leader on Sunday, four leaders and workers of the Budgam unit of the party resigned from their posts. The leaders didn’t cite any reason for the resignation.

Soon after the attack on Shah, three BJP workers of Kulgam– Nisar Ahmad Wani, constituency president from Kund; Sabzar Ahmad Paddar, vice president of the Devsar constituency; and BJP activist Ashiq Hussain Palla from Warpora-kund – announced their decision to dissociate themselves from the party.

Last month, BJP’S former district president of Bandipora, Waseem Bari, was killed, along with his father Basheer Ahmad and brother Suhail Basheer, inside his shop. J&K Police had said that two outlawed Lashkare-taiba (LET) members were involved in the killing of Bari and his kin.

Following the killings, two BJP leaders had resigned from the party. including Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) president from Baramulla, Marouf Bhat.