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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