Tariq Hameed Karra
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Tariq Hameed Karra (born 28 June 1955) is an Indian politician and was a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Srinagar (Lok Sabha constituency), Jammu and Kashmir. 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]
Tariq Hamid Karra | |
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MP of Lok Sabha for Srinagar | |
In office 16 May 2014 ā 17 Nov 2016 | |
Preceded by | Farooq Abdullah |
Succeeded by | Farooq Abdullah |
Constituency | Srinagar |
Former Cabinet Minister of Finance, Planning & Development, Law, Parliamentary Affairs, Housing & Urban Development, Forest, Environment, Ecology Tourism, Government of Jammu and Kashmir | |
In office 2005ā2008 | |
Personal details | |
Born | (1955-06-28) 28 June 1955 (age 69) |
Nationality | Indian |
Political party | J&KPDP (1999-2017) Indian National Congress (2017-)[1] |
Profession | Politician |