page_title: G. N. Ratanpuri
section_title: Controversies
hierarchical_section_title: G. N. Ratanpuri / Controversies
caption_attribution_description: English: Placards demanding return of the mortal remains of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat
context_page_description: Ghulam Nabi Ratanpuri is a politician in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
context_section_description: Ratanpuri made headlines in the State of J&K during the 2010 Kashmir unrest . He openly opposed the policies of his Government and criticised Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of the State. This led to the creation of differences between Ratanpuri and Omar Abdullah.
  Ratanpuri also came into limelight involving a controversy in his home constituency. The incident that caused the controversy was narrated by aide of Ratanpuri as follows. "The Superintendent of Police at Pulwama misbehaved with Ratanpuri and Ratanpuri was all fire against his party for not taking any action against the Police Officer concerned. The indifference of his Government forced Ratanpuri forced him to file a Breach of Privilege Motion against the Police Officer before the Privileges Committee of the Rajya Sabha. During the proceedings of the Privilege Committee, the Director General of Police J&K and the Chief Secretary were called in person to New Delhi, and the proceedings finally culminated into tendering of an unconditional apology by the Director General of Police J&K, the Chief Secretary and the Superintendent of Police at Pulwama."
  Though a member of mainstream political party Ratanpuri in March 2013 met the Hurriyat Leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani at his New Delhi residence, where Geelani was under continuous detention for weeks together. According to Ratanpuri he was instrumental in release of the Veteran Hurriyat Leader from house arrest after he met the Union Home Minister S. K. Shinde and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and demanded Geelani's release. Geelani was released with 24 hours after Ratanpuri's meet with the two Union Ministers.
  Ratanpuri again grabbed the headlines in Newspapers in the valley after he called the founder of his party, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah a man of Flaws, Failures and Fallacies. This did not go well within the party and a war of words started between Ratanpuri and Sheikh Mustafa Kamal ,son of Sheikh Abdullah. However, the Ruling National Conference remained silent on the issue and did not state anything in public.
  He is the first Member of Parliament from the State of J&K to have Filed a Privilege Motion against the Public Functionaries of the state, raised the Kashmir Dispute on the Floor of the Indian Parliament, disrupted the address of the President of India to both houses of the Parliament and raised the issue of hanging of Afzal Guru.
  After the hanging of Afzal Guru, Ratanpuri often criticised his Governments inactions and wrong policies, thereby turning him into an outcast in his own party. Though his actions were widely appreciated by the Civil Society of Kashmir and people at large but things were not well within his party.
  Due to his continuous criticism of his own party policies and members, the then Chief Minister from his own party, Omar Abdullah asked him to leave the party. To these comments of   Omar Abdullah Ratanpuri did not make a reply in public. Consequently,  his party took no action for his removal and the matter subsided.
  Ratanpuri was very vocal in the Parliament with regard to the Kashmir issue. During the Joint session of the Parliament in early 2013, Ratanpuri rose to disrupt the address of the President of India holding black placards in both hands, demanding return of the mortal remains of Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Afzal Guru.
caption: Placards demanding return of the mortal remains of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat
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