Bukhari re-joins PDP after 6 years

Basharat Bukhari addressing a press conference in Srinagar on Thursday. -Excelsior/Shakeel
Basharat Bukhari addressing a press conference in Srinagar on Thursday. -Excelsior/Shakeel

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 4: Former Minister in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)-Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) Government Syed Basharat Bukhari today rejoined the PDP after nearly six years.

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Bukhari re-joined the PDP a day after his 2-hour long meeting with party president Mehbooba Mufti.
“I have always fulfilled my responsibility to represent the aspirations of the people,” he told reporters after joining the party.

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When asked about joining various political parties during last few years, Bukhari said that it was learning experience for his and claimed that he is more experienced and mature now.
He said that he has represented his people during all these years when there have been no MLAs and MLCs in J&K.
Bukhari was expelled by the PDP in 2018 on charges of anti-party activities after the PDP-BJP coalition Government fell in Jammu and Kashmir.
In December 2018, Bukhari joined the National Conference. Again in 2021, he left the NC and joined People’s Conference, from where he was also expelled in June 2023.
Bukhari had joined the PDP in 2003 and got elected from the Sangrama constituency in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district in 2008 and 2014. He was Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Relief and Rehabilitation in the previous PDP-BJP Government.