January 07, 2025 01:19 pm (IST)
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Not Indian by birth, says Syed Ali Shah Geelani after applying for Indian passport
Srinagar, June 5 (IBNS): Sparking a row, Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Friday wrote Indian in the passport application form but after coming out from the office said he is "not an Indian by birth."
Geelani has applied for an Indian passport as he wants to travel to Saudi Arabia to visit his ailing daughter.
Emerging out of the passport office, he told reporters: "I am not by birth Indian. It is a compulsion."
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is an ally of PDP in the Jammu and Kashmir government, is against the issuing of the passport.
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