Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, has been the talk of the town ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. The Kashmiri politician, in jail for over five years in a terror funding case, won the Baramulla seat in the Lok Sabha polls with a big margin while he was still incarcerated. He was recently released on bail with his Awami Ittehad Party gearing to contest the polls.
Rashid’s growing influence in the local politics has caused concern among the mainstream parties of Jammu and Kashmir. Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have accused him of colluding with the BJP.
