AAP announces UT, provincial level units in J&K
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 17: Aam Aadmi Part today announced the provincial level as well as union territory level units of the party in Jammu and Kashmir.
The party has framed AAP Jammu and Kashmir State Coordination Committee with former minister, Harsh Dev Singh as its Chairman while DDC member Mehraj Malik and Dr Ghulam Mustafa Khan will be co-chairmen of the committee.
Similarly, Jammu and Kashmir State Organisation Building Committee will be headed by Prabhari of Jammu and Kashmir while senior leader Om Prakash Khajuria and DDC member Mehraj Malik will be Co-chairmen of the committee.
Nasir Ali Kochak will lead the J&K State Political Strategy and Policy committee as Chairman with S Surender Singh Shangari as Co-chairman whereas Jammu and Kashmir Manifesto Drafting Committee will be headed by S Deep Singh as Chairman while Prof Farooq Ahmed Aga will be Co-chairman of the committee.
On the other hand, senior party leader and DDC member TS Tony has been assigned the task of chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Engagement and Minority Affairs Committee with Sheema Farooqi as Co-chairperson.
Aam Aadmi Party has also formed State Media Committee with Dr Nawab Nasir as Chairman, S Jagdeep Singh as Co-chairman whereas Prof Farooq Ahmed Aga has been nominated as Chairman of State Grievances Redressal Forum and SK Sharma as Co-chairperson.
In Jammu and Kashmir SC, ST and OBC Welfare Forum, Yashpal Kundal has been appointed as Chairman with Retired Judge Sikander Azam as Co-chairman whereas Dr Mohammad Ayub Mattoo shall lead Jammu and Kashmir Publicity and Visibility Committee as Chairman alongwith Zafarullah Sheikh as Co-chairman.
AAP has also announced the provincial level units in Jammu and Kashmir provinces with Dr Ghulam Mustafa Khan appointed as Kashmir province president whereas Er Nazir Ahmed Yatoo, Mohd Amin Dar and Deeba Khan as Vice Presidents.
Similarly in Jammu province unit, S Surendra Singh Shangari has been appointed as senior vice president and Farooq Ahmed Banday, Raj Kapoor, Ravi Shastri, Rajesh Padgotra, Amit Kapoor and Subhash Sharma as Vice Presidents.
Alongside, Retd Judge Sikander Azam has been appointed as Prabhari of Jammu province ST wing while Khatib Hussain is President of Unit.
Jammu province unit of Kashmiri displaced people wing will be headed by MK Yogi as Prabhari and Ashwani Kumar Bhat as President.
AAP has also announced units of some of the districts of Jammu and Kashmir with Mian Aayaz Ahmed Jamali appointed as District President Bandipora, Younis Khan as District President North Srinagar comprising of four assembly constituencies, Owaise Wani as President of South Srinagar district comprising of four assembly constituencies.
Terming the announcement of all these units as a major step forward by AAP, the party’s organization building incharge in J&K, Munish Kaushik said that a powerful organisational structure is prerequisite for every political party and AAP is now having the same in Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that alike other parties, AAP units in J&K are having highly educated chairpersons in it who are having high qualifications like PhD and many are doctors, engineers, lawyers, technocrats, entrepreneurs and presence of these highly educated and professional people in units make Aam Aadmi Party a dynamic political platform.
He further said that the oath ceremony of all the newly elected chairpersons will be held in Jammu on October 28 and in Kashmir on October 29 and campaign for next Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will start formally from November 1st.
Pertinent to mention here that two rounds of announcements were made earlier in which units of district as well as block level were constituted and announced.
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