SRINAGAR: Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and ex-MLA Gurez Faqir Mohammad Khan on Saturday has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of the party president Ravinder Raina at the party headquarters in Jammu.
Faqir who hails from Gurez was the leader of PDP and had resigned from the party before a few days, however, he has joined the BJP in Jammu.
He had won the 1996 assembly elections as an independent candidate but lost to Nazir Gurezi in the 2014 elections. Khan was also associated with the Congress party before joining the PDP.
While joining BJP he said the people of Gurez along the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir are very optimistic about the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
