Muhammad Ashraf Sehari was transparently honest politician not a terrorist: Sajad Lone

Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone has called deceased Hurriyat leader Muhammad Ashraf Sehari was a transparently honest politician and not a terrorist.

In a series of tweets, Lone said, “Ashraf Sehrai Sahib passes away. A long political career comes to an end. Ashraf Sahib struggled all his life. A Jamaat ideologue. When I was 19 I bumped into him and he told me Tell ur father —kitney haseen hain terey lab ki galiyan dekey bemaza na hua.May Allah grant him Jannat.”

“This is the irony of Kashmiri politics. Top-quality politicians consumed by the conflict. The ideological versatility of Kashmir politics is a curse. A transparently honest politician spent decades in jail,” he wrote in another tweet.

Sajad Lone asked why he has to die in jail and not his home, “And why did he have to die in incarceration and not at his home amongst his kin and loved ones. Have we become so weak that an old infirm dying person is a threat to the state. I am not being critical. But please introspect. Seharai Sahib was a political leader, not a terrorist.”