Senior PDP leader and former legislator Faqir Mohammad Khan on Saturday joined BJP here and said people of Gurez along the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir were very optimistic about policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Khan, who had won theassembly elections from Gurez constituency of Bandipora district in 1996 as anindependent before joining the PDP, was welcomed into the party fold by UnionTerritory BJP President Ravinder Raina at the party headquarters here.
Khan was the zonalpresident of the PDP before resigning from the party.
Besides Khan, seniorCongress activists from Arnas including Sansar Singh (Sarpanch), Sunny Sharma(youth block President) and Umesh Singh and activist Sunil Sharma from Reasialso joined the BJP.
“People of Gurez are veryoptimistic about Modi’s policies. Gurez lacked many amenities till now but weare sure that all our issues will be resolved by the BJP government,” he said,claiming that BJP will win the Gurez seat in the Assembly election with greatmargin.
National Conference leaderNazir Ahmad Khan Gurezi was the last sitting MLA from the constituency, whichhe had won for three consecutive terms. Hailing Khan’s decision, Raina said,”Sheena tribe has always remained a patriotic community and the region will bedeveloped aggressively now.”
He also praised new entrantsfrom Arnia and Reasi for their “wise decision” of joining the BJP.
The BJP leader called for asuccessful ‘Janata’ curfew on Sunday and urged people to not move out of theirhomes.
“Janata curfew announced by the Prime Minister is part of major tactics to stop the spread of Coronavirus by breaking the chain of cross infection,” he said.