J&K’s new Deputy CM is recent import to NC from BJP, Omar says ‘kept promise to Jammu’

Omar said arsenic much, telling reporters aft the swearing-in: “I had said that we volition not let Jammu to consciousness that they bash not person a dependable oregon typical successful this government. I person chosen a Deputy CM from Jammu truthful that the radical of Jammu consciousness that this authorities is arsenic overmuch theirs arsenic it is of the rest.”

Choudhary, 56, incidentally had discontinue the BJP, accusing Raina, whom helium defeated, of “promoting family” and “corruption”. On his societal media handle, helium posted astatine the time: “Gud bye BJP… Ravinder Raina bask with your parivarbad and corruption”.

When Choudhary joined the NC, it was a 2nd enactment alteration for the firebrand person wrong a year, having resigned arsenic PDP wide caput successful April 2022 to articulation the BJP. At the time, Choudhary had cited arsenic crushed the public’s “love” and “affection” for the BJP for the delimitation sheet nether its authorities dividing Nowshera and Sunderbani into 2 abstracted Assembly constituencies.

Before helium resigned and joined politics, Choudhary was an worker astatine the Sher-e-Kashmir Agriculture University, Jammu, wherever helium headed a portion of the NC’s Mazdoor Union.

Choudhary’s archetypal enactment was the BSP, and helium contested his maiden Assembly predetermination from Nowshera successful 2009, getting 12,000 votes. By the clip of the adjacent Assembly elections successful 2014, helium was a PDP campaigner from Nowshera and mislaid to the BJP’s Ravinder Raina by astir 10,000 votes. After helium joined the PDP, it made him an MLC.

Then, up of the 2024 Assembly elections, helium near the BJP and joined the electoral fray arsenic an NC candidate. He defeated Raina by 7,819 votes.