Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 16: Two former lawmakers rejoined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today, more than four years after quitting the party.
Mansoor Hussain Suharwardy, a former PDP MLA, and Yasir Reshi, who previously served as an MLC, were welcomed back at the party headquarters in Srinagar in the presence of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti. “Former MLA Mansoor Hussain Suharwardy and MLC Yasir Reshi returned to the PDP in the presence of Mehbooba Mufti at the party headquarters in Srinagar,” the party said in a post on X.
They were received by senior party leaders, including PDP vice president Mohammad Sartaj Madni, Parliamentary Board chief Abdul Rehman Veeri, general secretaries Abdul Haq Khan and Mohammad Khursheed Alam, and former ministers Syed Nayeem Akhter Andrabi, Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura, and Asiya Naqash.
Suharwardy and Reshi were among several leaders who left the PDP after the BJP withdrew from their coalition government in 2018. They later joined the People’s Conference, led by Sajad Gani Lone, in 2021.
Over the past year, several former PDP leaders, including Muzaffar Hussain Baig, Khursheed Alam, and Basharat Bukhari, have also returned to the party.
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