Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 20: Senior IAS officer and Secretary PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control & DMRRR, Farooq Ahmad Shah is learnt to have applied for voluntary retirement from Government services for purportedly taking a plunge in active politics.
He is likely to join National Conference and may contest upcoming Assembly elections from Tangmarg Assembly constituency, sources told the Excelsior.
Farooq Shah, who has served at various top posts in different departments including DC Srinagar, DC Anantnag, Director Tourism, Secretary Education, Secretary PHE, I&FC and Relief and Rehabilitation, is the second IAS officer in Jammu and Kashmir who has applied for voluntary retirement from Government services for taking a plunge in the active politics.
Official sources said that Mr Shah today tendered his volunteer retirement from the services before the Government. He was still having more than one year Government service before attaining age of superannuation in 2020.
Pertinently, besides Farooq Shah, IAS officer Shah Faesal and top unionist leader Abdul Qayoom Wani have also resigned from their services and joined politics.
Wani has joined PDP and will be contesting Lok Sabha elections from Baramulla constituency while as Shah Faesal has also expressed his willingness to contest Parliamentary elections from north Kashmir constituency.
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