Lok Sabha MP from Baramulla, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, has dismissed allegations that he acts as a proxy for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)  Member Parliament and Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) chief Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, addresses a press conference ahead of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, in Srinagar on September 12.(PTI) Rashid believes that his success in the general elections demonstrates the public’s discontent with the Modi government’s ‘Naya Kashmir’ initiative. The Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) chief remarked that those who accuse him of being a BJP proxy should feel “ashamed of themselves,” asserting that he is the only mainstream leader to have faced persecution from the ruling party. “The people who accuse me of being a BJP proxy should feel ashamed. I am the only one who was victimised by the BJP. While Omar and Mehbooba were kept in SKICC for several months during the abrogation, I was the only MLA jailed in Tihar,” said Rashid in an interview with PTI videos.  He alleged that …