Tariq Hameed Karra
Tariq Hamid Karra | |
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| President Jammu and Kashmir Congress Committee | |
| Assumed office 16 August 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Vikar Rasool Wani |
| Member of Parliament Lok Sabha | |
| In office 16 May 2014 – 17 Nov 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Farooq Abdullah |
| Succeeded by | Farooq Abdullah |
| Constituency | Srinagar |
| Cabinet Minister of Finance, Planning & Development, Law, Parliamentary Affairs, Housing & Urban Development, Forest, Environment, Ecology Tourism Government of Jammu and Kashmir | |
| In office 2005–2008 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 June 1955 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | J&KPDP (1999-2017) Indian National Congress (2017-)[1] |
| Profession | Politician |
Tariq Hameed Karra (born 28 June 1955) is an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir and was a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Srinagar. He is currently serving as the President of Jammu Kashmir PCC.
He had won the 2014 Indian general election being a Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party candidate by defeating Dr. Farooq Abdullah of National Conference by more than 40000 votes, and thereby handing the veteran politician his first ever electoral defeat in 4 decades. He was a fierce critic of the BJP-PDP alliance from the very beginning and resigned from the Lok Sabha and PDP, of which he was a founding member as a mark of protest against innocent civilian killings in September 2016 and later joined the Indian National Congress in February 2017 and was later nominated as a member of Congress Working Committee, the first for any politician from Kashmir valley. He has also served as the Finance, Planning and Law minister for Jammu and Kashmir state.[2][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Former PDP MP Tariq Hameed Karra joins Congress, Indian Express, 18 February 2017.
- ^ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
- ^ "Tariq Hameed Karra". India.gov.in. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah engaging in double speak over IIT issue : PDP". The Economic Times. Sri Nagar. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
Further reading
[edit]- R. S. Gull, Man of the Match, Kashmir Life, 26 May 2014.
- Mudashir Ahmad, Why the Resignation of the PDP’s Srinagar MP is a Big Deal, The Wire, 16 September 2016.
- V. Kumaraswamy, 'The seeds of Kashmiri discontent and alienation were sown when the PDP allied with the BJP', The Telegraph, 25 September 2016.
- Anil Anand, Karra’s Congress-plan for Kashmir, Daily Excelsior, 3 January 2017.
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