JK News Today

Srinagar,  November 3

Senior most separatist leader  Syed Ali Shah Geelani has condoled the death of former Deputy Chief Minister Mangat  Ram Sharma with whom he was  in the  legislative Assembly  for many years.

In a statement issued here this evening  Geelani expressed  his deep sorrow  and shock over the death of 90 year old senior politician  Mangat Ram Sharma.

While remembering the days spend with him in assembly, Geelani said that he had “brotherly relations with him.”

“ He often used to say that “Kashmir issue will live till Geelani is alive”.

He further  said that Sharma supported our stand of ban on liquor and other social issues.

While condoling Sharma’s death Geelani said that “I have lost a good and critic friend whom I will remember for long.”