Mohammad Khalil Naik

Who is Mohammad Khalil Naik?

Mohammad Khalil Naik is a Kashmiri politician. He is a veteran leader of the Communist Party of India in Jammu & Kashmir. He served as Member of the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly representing the Wachi constituency 2002-2008. He is also a member of the Jammu & Kashmir State Committee of CPI.

Mohammad Khalil Naik won the Wachi seat in 2002, defeating the Jammu & Kashmir People's Democratic Party candidate Ghulam Hassan Bhat by a margin of merely 80 votes. Mohammad Khalil Naik got 4,133 votes.

In April–May 2004, during the election campaign ahead of the Lok Sabha parliamentary election, militants conducted two attempts to kill Mohammad Khalil Naik. On April 28, 2004 militants hurled a grenade at his vehicle near Bungam as he was travelling to an election campaign meeting in Bonapora. The grenade missed the car but injured various bystanders, wounding two policemen and twelve civilians. And on May 17, 2004 Mohammad Khalil Naik's motorcade was attacked at Zainapora in the Shopian area of the Pulwama district. Mohammad Khalil Naik managed to escape unhurt from the attacks.