Tariq Hameed Karra Explained

Tariq Hamid Karra
Birth Date:1955 6, df=yes
Office:President
Jammu and Kashmir Congress Committee
Term Start:16 August 2024
Predecessor:Vikar Rasool Wani
Office1:Member of Parliament
Lok Sabha
Term Start1:16 May 2014
Term End1:17 Nov 2016
Predecessor1:Farooq Abdullah
Successor1:Farooq Abdullah
Constituency1:Srinagar
Office2:Cabinet Minister of Finance, Planning & Development, Law, Parliamentary Affairs, Housing & Urban Development, Forest, Environment, Ecology Tourism
Government of Jammu and Kashmir
Chiefminister2:Ghulam Nabi Azad
Term Start2:2005
Term End2:2008
Nationality:Indian
Party:J&KPDP
Indian National Congress [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]

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  1. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/former-pdp-mp-tariq-hameed-karra-joins-congress-4531617/ Former PDP MP Tariq Hameed Karra joins Congress
  2. Web site: Constituencywise-All Candidates . 17 May 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140519233326/http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS092.htm?ac=2 . 19 May 2014 .
  3. Web site: Tariq Hameed Karra. India.gov.in. 24 September 2014.
  4. News: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah engaging in double speak over IIT issue : PDP. 24 September 2014. The Economic Times. Sri Nagar.