SRINAGAR: Jailed Lok Sabha MP from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, said on Saturday that he would sit on a two-day hunger strike on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti to evoke the significance of the non-violence principle.

In a handwritten letter addressed to ‘Bapu’ and forwarded to the Lok Sabha Speaker, the MP, who is currently lodged in New Delhi’s Tihar jail in a terror funding case, said the entire world is in a “desperate need” for peace.

Asserting that while Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence is more relevant now than ever, the MP — popularly known as Engineer Rashid — said that nations across the globe directly or indirectly continue to indulge in violence even while claiming to fight for peace.

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