Senior politicians Aalam, Reshi quit PDP | India News – Times of India
SRINAGAR: Senior politicians Khursheed Aalam and Yasir Reshi resigned from the basic membership of former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti-led People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday.
After tendering his resignation, Reshi said: “I decided to part ways with PDP going by the advice from party workers.”
Aalam had unsuccessfully contested 2014 assembly polls from Khanyar constituency in Srinagar on PDP ticket. He was a supervisor and a popular trade union leader in the food and supplies department before joining politics.
Given their stature, PDP founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had nominated Aalam, Reshi as MLCs in 2015-16.