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PDP lawmakers demand return of Guru's remains

| | Mar 03, 2015, at 12:45 am
#PDP lawmakers demand return of Afzal Guru's remains
New Delhi, Mar 2(IBNS) A group of lawmakers of Jammu and Kashmir's People's Democratic Party has demanded that the mortal remains of executed Afzal Guru be handed over to his family.
The demand was made a day after formation of the PDP-BJP government and chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's remark over violence-free election in J&K raised a storm of controversy.
 
"We believe the resolution brought by Engineer Rashid to seek clemency for late Afzal Guru was justified," a statement released by the  PDP lawmakers said. "PDP has always maintained that late Afzal Guru's hanging was travesty of justice... and demand for return of his mortal remains."
 
Afzal Guru was executed in 2013 after being convicted in connection with the terrorist attack on parliament.
 
An independent lawmaker, Rashid was present during the release of the statement.
 
 An independent lawmaker, Rashid was present during the release of the statement,  "I just wanted to prove PDP wrong the way they treated the Afzal Guru issue... If BJP has any respect for moral values then BJP should break the alliance because they were calling  Afzal Guru the terrorist and I have proved that Afzal was a hero," he said.
 
The PDP demand is expected to put in an awkward situation the BJP, its partner in the Jammu and Kashmir government, which is also in power at the centre.

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