Srinagar, Aug. 5 -- Bilal Gani Lone, a long-time associate of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat Conference, has sought a chance from people, after he dropped indications of entering mainstream politics.

"You should provide (me) one chance. Only death should spare me. I won't claim (to perform) 100% but if only I will be able to perform even 30% and you will remember that this was better for us ," he told his supporters in Handwara during a gathering.

As the Hurriyat has now become defunct owing to the pressure by authorities, Bilal appears to have taken the route which his younger brother and People's Conference president Sajad Lone took in 2009. Sajad and Bilal are sons of late separatist leader Abdul Gani Lone, who was assassinated in ...