92-Year old ex-MP spends night in Jammu Jail for Organizing Solidarity Meet on Gaza War

Sheikh Abdul Rehman was taken to a Jammu police station last Friday night, and spent the night there, ahead of the planned solidarity meeting that was to be held the next day at Maharaja Hari Singh Park in Jammu.

A 92-year-old former MP from Jammu and Kashmir was among five people who spent a night in police custody last week over their decision to call a meeting to express solidarity with the victims of bombardment in Gaza.

Sheikh Abdul Rehman was taken to a Jammu police station last Friday night, and spent the night there, ahead of the planned solidarity meeting that was to be held the next day at Maharaja Hari Singh Park in Jammu.

The call for the meeting was made through pamphlets brought out by the United Peace Alliance, an organisation of various social and political movements. The group’s chairman Shahid Saleem said the pamphlets made no mention of “an anti-Israel protest” and added that the meeting was only meant to express “solidarity with the Gaza war victims and call for an end to hostilities”.

Apart from Rehman, the others detained were Saleem, I D Khajuria of the International Democratic Party, Subash Mehta of the CPI(ML), and one Sukhdev Singh. Rehman is known as the first Muslim to join the Jan Sangh, and in 1972, he became the chief of Jan Sagh’s J&K unit. Source