KNOWN SEPARATIST LEADER BILAL GANI LONE IS GOING MAINSTREAM IN KASHMIR
SON OF LATE ABDUL GANI LONE, HIS FORAY INTO ELECTORAL POLITICS IS SIGNIFICANT
2022-11-16 10:34
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Kashmir’s politics is likely to witness a major change, Separatist leader Bilal Gani Lone is preparing to bid farewell to separatism and enter the mainstream politics.. Bilal is elder son of Abdul Gani Lone, the Hurriyat Conference leader who founded the People Conference. Considered a moderate who had wide support across north Kashmir, Abdul Lone was thrice elected from Handwara in Kupwara district before militancy erupted in Kashmir. He was assassinated on May 21, 2002, during a rally at the Srinagar Eidgah.