Srinagar, Feb 28, KDC: The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has nominated young businessman Zuhaib Yousuf Mir as the district youth President of Srinagar.
The PDP has nominated Zuhaib Yousf as the district president of the party’s youth wing for Srinagar District, while Asif Wangnoo has been nominated as Zone Coordinator for Zadibal zone, Srinagar.
A PDP spokesman said the nominations were made to “streamline further the grassroots level network to reach out to common masses.”
In a function at the party office in Srinagar, many prominent youth activists from Srinagar led by Mir joined the People’s Democratic Party. Amongst them were some young Kashmiri Pandit activists too who aligned with the ideology of People’s Democratic Party. Understanding the importance of syncretic community, ex-chief minister Mehbooba mufti reiterated the importance of strengthening the idea of a secular fabric in Jammu and Kashmir and the country at large.
“These young men are trail blazers of a new politics of democratic resistance. They have joined the party and politics as a passion for dignity and political rights, empowerment and reconciliation. They and many others like them rekindle the hope that was sought to be extinguished,” tweets former minister, Nayeem Akhtar.
Zuhaib, who has done his degree in economics from London, hails from Athwajan area and is grandson of a prominent businessman of J&K, late Abdul Salam Mir.
Earlier while joining the party, Zuhaib said that it was after the abrogation of Article 370 that he decided to join politics believing that youth of Jammu and Kashmir have to choose democratic polity to struggle and strive for their ‘snatched rights. (KDC)
