New Delhi, Nov 27: Chief Spokesperson Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) Inam Un Nabi today released a powerful handwritten letter from incarcerated Member of Parliament Baramulla Er Rashid addressed to the Hon’ble Speaker of the Lok Sabha, in which he announces a one-day symbolic hunger strike on 28 November 2025 inside Tihar Jail No. 1 to protest the “bulldozing of constitutional rights of the people of Jammu & Kashmir.”
The letter written entirely in Er Rashid’s own hand delivers a direct constitutional, moral and political indictment of the current situation in J&K.
MP Er Rashid begins by stating that “the entire people of India are genuinely proud of the Constitution their elders gave them,” but says it felt like “mocking both the Constitution and ‘We the People of J&K’” when he learnt that a Kashmiri-translated version of the Constitution was released by the Hon’ble President “when the constitutional guarantees and rights of Kashmiris have been bulldozed and tampered.”
He writes that “their elected MP has been jailed, their state has been broken into pieces and their liberty and rights have been curtailed,” arguing that such gestures “mean very little to those who truly believe in upholding the real spirit of the Constitution, including Kashmiris.”
Before celebrating Constitution Day, Er Rashid urges the ruling dispensation to answer “how can the majority in Parliament be used to bulldoze and dilute the preamble of the Constitution.”
Er Rashid then issues a scathing warning about the direction in which the country is being pushed. He writes that if the current government continues to justify “bulldozer justice, custodial killings, demolishing houses, removing the CJI from the panel to nominate the Chief Election Commissioner, putting thousands of Kashmiris in jails, misusing central agencies against Kashmiris and strengthening draconian laws like UAPA,” it would be giving “Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar sleepless nights in the eternal world” especially at a time when political parties, both in power and opposition, take an oath to uphold the Constitution.
Calling the Constitution “already being rewritten,” he urges 140 crore Indians to reflect on the eve of Constitution Day and ask both the ruling party and the opposition to “restore the constitutional rights of the people of J&K snatched on 5th August 2019.” To convey this message, he concludes by announcing: “I would be observing a symbolic hunger strike in Tihar Jail on 28th Nov 2025.”
The letter is signed from Tihar Jail No. 1 and dated 25–11–2025 and was forwarded to party leadership through his legal counsel.
AIP has said the letter represents “the honest conscience of an elected representative being denied his constitutional space” and reflects the deep wounds carried by the people of Jammu & Kashmir.
