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| Facing biggest ever political challenge Mehbooba re-elected as PDP president | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 26: Facing the biggest political challenge since its formation in the year 1998, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reposed faith in the leadership of Mehbooba Mufti to make the party relevant in the politics of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Struggling to retrieve its lost ground in the Kashmir Valley, the PDP on Thursday re-elected former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti as its president for a three-year term. Mehbooba Mufti's name was proposed by Senior Vice President Abdul Rehman Veeri and seconded by General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Hanjura and former minister Abdul Gaffar Sofi. All the members of the electoral college supported the nomination through a voice vote. The election process was held simultaneously in Jammu, which was connected to the Srinagar office of the party online.
Mehbooba’s election for the eighth consecutive term was unanimous, party leaders said.
Mehbooba thanked party leaders for reposing their trust and electing her as their president.
Mehbooba Mufti is the last chief of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The 63-year-old firebrand leader was first elected as the PDP president after her father Mufti Muhammad Sayeed passed away in January 2016.
At the age of 57, Mehbooba became the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir in April 2016 and remained in office till June 2018 when the BJP withdrew its support from the alliance government.
After the fall of the PDP-BJP alliance government in June 2018, the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into the two Union Territories on October 21, 2019.
After the abrogation of J&K’s special status under Article 370 on August 5, 2019, she was jailed for a year. However, the challenges before Mehbooba in her second innings as the PDP president are much bigger than before. Her party is in shambles ever in shambles ever since she lost power in 2018 as a large number of senior leaders have left the party.
A law graduate, Mehbooba took the plunge into mainstream politics of the state in 1996 by joining the Congress, along with her father, at a time when terrorism was at its peak in the erstwhile state.
She emerged from the shadow of her illustrious father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who founded the PDP in 1999, to head Jammu and Kashmir as the first woman chief minister of the J&K in 2016.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was formed in 1998 by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as a regional alternative to the National Conference. The party grew from strength to strength during the last two decades with many political stalwarts joining it. Several technocrats and bureaucrats, after retiring from service, also joined the PDP over the years.
The Peoples Democratic Party is facing its biggest challenge since its formation.
While Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had managed to retain the grip over the party, most of the prominent leaders including some founding members have left over the last two five years.
PDP was founded by Mufti Sayeed along with a dozen of his loyalists on July 28, 1999 and the party had achieved power by the end of the year 2002. Despite having 16 MLA in his kitty Mufti became Chief Minister of a coalition with Congress, having 20 seats. |
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