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Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Ghulam Hassan Mir on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 launched his own political party named Jammu & Kashmir Democratic Party. The erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir urban development minister is the sitting legislator from north Kashmir’s Tangmarg constituency in the 87 member state legislative assembly.
The Peoples Democratic Party had earlier expelled Ghulam Hassan Mir for alleged anti-party activities. He had won the 2002 elections on a PDP ticket. After the launch of his party, Mr. Mir said in the local language that let us now start a kind of politics that brings glory to the state. The former J&K minister further added that his party shall act as facilitators in the India-Pakistan peace process on Kashmir. At the media conference on Wednesday, Mr. Mir remarked that the Jammu & Kashmir Democratic Party, with its urban and rural base would work for permanent peace in the state by achieving political, economic and social rights of the people with emphasis on economic self-reliance.
