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
Srinagar (; ) is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary ...
. 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
General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...
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
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...
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.
References
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Further reading
* R. S. Gull
Man of the Match Kashmir Life, 26 May 2014.
* Mudashir Ahmad
Why the Resignation of the PDP’s Srinagar MP is a Big Deal The Wire, 16 September 2016.
* V. Kumaraswamy
'The seeds of Kashmiri discontent and alienation were sown when the PDP allied with the BJP' The Telegraph, 25 September 2016.
* Anil Anand
Karra’s Congress-plan for Kashmir Daily Excelsior, 3 January 2017.
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Politicians from Srinagar
Living people
Lok Sabha members from Jammu and Kashmir
1955 births
Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party politicians
Indian National Congress politicians from Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir MLAs 2024–2029
Presidents of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee
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