Episode 44 (1) | Kashmir Podcast With Ahmed Ali Fayyaz | Guest: Abdul Rashid Kabuli, Ex-MP Ex-MLA

Abdul Rashid Kabuli (89) is a senior mainstream Kashmiri politician who has been less visible on the valley's political firmament after a brief tryst with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2007. However, right from his college student days in 1950s to 2007, he gained prominence by contesting several Assembly and Parliamentary elections successfully or unsuccessfully sometimes as an Independent candidate and sometimes as a nominee of one or the other political party. In 1972, he was among the 10 Independent and Jamaat-e-Islami candidates, who, according to him, were declared elected "under a special arrangement" in the Congress regime's umpteenth farcical Assembly elections in Kashmir. In 1977, he joined Prime Minister Morarji Desai's Janata Party and was fielded as the then federal ruling party's candidate in Eidgah constituency in Srinagar. In 1967, he had contested as an Independent from the same constituency previously called 'Safakadal' which used to be the safe home segment of the former Prime Minister of J&K State Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad. In 1977, when Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah's National Conference swept the polls, Kabuli was among the two-odd JP candidates who were returned in the Valley.

Following Dr Farooq Abdullah's induction as Chief Minister upon his father Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah's death in 1982, Kabuli was admitted into the NC and fielded as the State ruling party's candidate in the by-elections for the Central Kashmir Lok Sabha seat. He was returned for the Parliament. Following the Farooq Abdullah Government's dismissal and replacement by Ghulam Mohammad Shah as the Chief Minister, Kabuli was fielded by NC as its candidate against CM's son Muzaffar Shah in the Lok Sabha elections of 1984. Kabuli who polled more than 3.5 lakh votes defeated the CM's son who got a total of 89000 votes. Subsequently, Kabul shifted to the BJP in 1997 and contesting the 1998 Lok Sabha election from Srinagar unsuccessfully. In 2002, he contested the Assembly election as an Independent candidate from Eidgah but was defeated by NC's stalwart Mubarak Gul. In 2007, he remained briefly associated with the PDP. He is the guest this week in Episode#44 [Part-1 and Part-2] of "Kashmir Podcast With Ahmed Ali Fayyaz" on TALKISTAN.

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