A legislator from north Kashmir on Wednesday (May 13, 2026) boycotted the anti-drug campaign of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha after the police demolished the house of a local from his constituency in north Kashmir “in an eight-year-old case where the accused was acquitted and not convicted”.
Sheikh Khursheed, a leader of the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) who represents the Langate constituency in north Kashmir, did a Facebook live of the demolition of a two-storey house on May 11 and later decided to boycott the L-G’s foot march in north Kashmir’s Baramulla and Handwara “as a mark of protest”.
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“The so-called demolition drive of the BJP and the L-G is aimed at making locals homeless in the name of an anti-drug drive. There are violations of the directions of the Supreme Court (SC) that no house will be demolished without notice or an order. In this case, officials I spoke to informed me they had no orders. Still, bulldozers demolished the house,” said MLA Khursheed, who is also the brother of incarcerated Member of Parliament Engineer Rashid.
He said the affected family had managed to construct the house after “selling a piece of land”.
