Srinagar, Oct 26: Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti was re-elected as Peoples Democratic Party president for the term of three years.
This is for the sixth consecutive time that Mehbooba Mufti got elected as president unanimously, party leaders said.
The party election for the president was held in Srinagar today.
The party vice president Abdul Rehman Veeri had proposed the name of Mufti for the president post and was seconded by party general secretary Ghulam Nabi Hanjura, a party leader said.
She was nominated as president by the electoral college from Kashmir and Jammu provinces through a voice vote. The election to the party’s highest post is held after every three years.
A law graduate from the Kashmir University, Mehbooba Mufti started her political career in 1996 when she was first elected to the State Legislative Assembly from Bijbehara Anantnag on Congress ticket. Three years later, Mehbooba Mufti’s father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, formed the PDP after leaving the Congress.
PDP formed the government in the erstwhile state along with the Congress in 2003 and later, in 2015, with the Bharatiya Janta Party. After the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories, J&K and Ladakhin August 2019, atleast 24 former legislators, ministers, parliament members and senior leaders left the PDP.
