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Hours after taking oath because the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, Omar Abdullah, Nationwide Convention (NC) vice-president, named his shut lieutenant Nasir Aslam Wani as his advisor.
An order issued by the J&Okay authorities’s Normal Administration Division (GAD) mentioned Wani has been appointed as an advisor to the CM.
A senior NC chief, Wani, 58, hails from the Sogam village in Kupwara. He belongs to a political household. His grandfather G N Sogami gained the Lolab Meeting seat in 1962 and 1967 and was a minister within the Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad Cupboard within the Sixties.
A enterprise graduate, Wani joined politics in 1998, beginning his stint with the NC’s youth wing. He made his debut in electoral politics for the primary time in 2008 and gained as an NC canddate from Srinagar’s Amirakadal seat that has been now renamed Channapora.
Wani was inducted into his Council of Ministers by Omar Abdullah throughout his first tenure because the CM between 2009 and 2014. He was initially given numerous portfolios because the Minister of State (MoS) together with Tourism, Tradition, Housing and City improvement, Public Well being Engineering and Income and Reduction.
Three years later, he was additionally given the cost of MoS Residence following which he straight labored with Omar, who was dealing with the Residence division.
Within the 2014 Meeting polls, Wani misplaced to the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP)’s Altaf Bukhari from the Amirakadal seat. Regardless of his defeat,
Wani’s stature within the NC has been on the rise. In 2014, he was elected because the NC’s provincial president for Kashmir Valley, a submit he continues to carry within the social gathering.
In 2022, the NC appointed as him the constituency in-charge for the Kupwara Meeting seat.
Within the current Meeting elections, Wani contested from the Kupwara seat, returning to his residence city. He misplaced to the PDP’s Fayaz Ahmad Mir by round 10,000 votes.
An NC chief mentioned Nasir “had rather a lot expertise” with the social gathering affairs and construction, which might assist him in his advisor’s position.
“He (Wani) has been the provincial president for a decade now. He took the submit when the social gathering was at its lowest. We had simply 15 seats in Meeting then,” the NC chief mentioned.
The chief additionally claimed, “His (Wani’s) management has helped the social gathering develop to a place the place we have now secured a majority on our personal. It reveals his distinctive qualities”.
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