Syed Ali Shah Geelani resigns from All Party Hurriyat Conference

New Delhi: Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday resigned from All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC).

Geelani, 3-time MLA from Sopore, turned separatist after quitting politics

Geelani is understood to have realised his folly of supporting Pakistan and that they only pump in weapons and drugs.

Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani resigns from All Party Hurriyat Conference. (file pic) pic.twitter.com/6Xzm198g5U

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Geelani has written a detailed letter to all constituent parts of the amalgam about the reasons behind his decision to leave the Hurriyat Conference, of which he had been nominated as a lifetime chairman.

Geelani referred to inaction by the Hurriyat members post the abrogation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and the division of the erstwhile state into two Union territories.
“I sent messages to you through various means so that the next course of action could be decided but all my efforts (to get in touch) went in vain. Now that the sword of accountability is hanging over your heads for the financial and other irregularities, you thought of calling the advisory committee meeting,” he alleged.

Here’s the letter from Geelani:

The 90-year-old, who is viewed as a key separatist leader in Kashmir, has been under house arrest for most of the time since 2010. The Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of 26 political, social and religious organisations was formed in 1993, as a united political platform of the separatist parties in Kashmir.

Geelani was appointed the lifetime chairman of his faction of the All Party Hurriyat Conference in 2003. He had been a part of the political outfit since the 1990s and had helmed the separatist movement in the erstwhile state. He was elected as an MLA from Sopore thrice and had quit electoral politics amid the rise of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.