Tariq Hameed Karra

Tariq Hameed Karra (born 28 June 1955) is an Indian politician and was a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Srinagar (Lok Sabha constituency), Jammu and Kashmir. 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]

Tariq Hamid Karra
MP of Lok Sabha for Srinagar
In office
16 May 2014 – 17 Nov 2016
Preceded byFarooq Abdullah
Succeeded byFarooq Abdullah
ConstituencySrinagar
Former Cabinet Minister of Finance, Planning & Development, Law, Parliamentary Affairs, Housing & Urban Development, Forest, Environment, Ecology Tourism, Government of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
2005–2008
Personal details
Born (1955-06-28) 28 June 1955
NationalityIndian
Political partyJ&KPDP (1999-2017)
Indian National Congress (2017-)[1]
ProfessionPolitician

References
  1. Former PDP MP Tariq Hameed Karra joins Congress, Indian Express, 18 February 2017.
  2. "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  3. "Tariq Hameed Karra". India.gov.in. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  4. "Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah engaging in double speak over IIT issue : PDP". The Economic Times. Sri Nagar. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
Lok Sabha
Preceded by
Farooq Abdullah		 Member of Parliament
for Srinagar
2014 – 2017		 Succeeded by
Farooq Abdullah

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