Geelani was a member of the legislative meeting 3 times.
Srinagar:
Separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani is within the checklist of former legislators and parliamentarians who will probably be remembered by the Jammu and Kashmir Meeting on Tuesday.
The speaker of the meeting will make obituary references over the demise of former legislators who’ve died for the reason that final session of the legislature which passed off in February 2018.
Others who will function within the obituary references on Tuesday embody former president Pranab Mukherjee, former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee, former governor Jagmohan Malhotra, and BJP MLA Devender Singh Rana who died just lately.
Geelani was a member of the legislative meeting 3 times from the Sopore section, having received in 1972, 1977 and 1987.
With the eruption of militancy in 1989, Geelani joined the separatist bandwagon and boycotted the elections until his demise in 2021.
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