Remembering Abdul Sattar Ranjoor

( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)

Circa March 1990: Kashmir Rechords in its  recent blogs  reported about the killing   of a   Telecom Engineer B K Ganjoo and  that of Deputy Director, Food and Supplies Kashmir A K Raina who were killed in the month of March 1990. During the same period, terrorists in Kashmir had killed leaders of other mainstream political parties as well. The killing  of   veteran Communist Party leader Abdul Sattar Ranjoor is one such instance.

On March 23, 1990, Communist Party leader Abdul Sattar Ranjoor was having an ordinary evening, sitting by the side of his wife at their home in Keegam, Shopian, and Kashmir. Terrorists had  entered the room with an intention to kill  Ranjoor at point blank range. Ranjoor   was shot dead because  of  his love for Kashmir and its people irrespective of their faith and belief.

Ranjoor was a secular and anti- communal. That is evident from the fact that he had fought for Ahmedia Muslims during his life. ( refer to is auto-biography).,  He took on fundamentalists of all faiths with equal disdain. Notwithstanding his deep engagement on socio-political front, Ranjoor had  immensely contributed to Kashmiri Literature. He  had started writing poetry while he was a teenager.