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 is also a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Central Shalteng constituency.

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 40,000 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 the Congress Working Committee, the first for any politician from the Kashmir valley. He has also served as the Finance, Planning and Law Minister for Jammu and Kashmir state. Currently, he is serving as JKPCC president and Member of Legislative assembly of Central Shalteng Assembly constituency.[2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ Former PDP MP Tariq Hameed Karra joins Congress, Indian Express, 18 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  3. ^ "Tariq Hameed Karra". India.gov.in. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah engaging in double speak over IIT issue : PDP". The Economic Times. Sri Nagar. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  5. ^ NDTV (13 October 2024). "At Least 13 New MLAs In Jammu And Kashmir Are From Political Families". Retrieved 13 October 2024.
Lok Sabha
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Srinagar
2014 – 2017 		Succeeded by

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Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Hameed_Karra
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