Tariq Hameed Karra (born 28 June 1955) is an Indian politician and was a

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to the

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from Srinagar (Lok Sabha constituency),

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. He had won the

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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

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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.

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* 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. K Politicians from Srinagar Living people Lok Sabha members from Jammu and Kashmir 1955 births Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party politicians {{JammuKashmir-politician-stub

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