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Former MP Fayaz Mir rejoins PDP

Former MP Fayaz Mir rejoins PDP

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Former member parliament (MP) Fayaz Ahmad Mir on Sunday rejoined Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Sources told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that Mir was in touch with several parties over the past few months. According to sources, he had reportedly expressed his desire to join the National Conference and held a meeting with its two leaders in Jammu. “He had asked these leaders to convince the party high command to give him Lok Sabha ticket from Baramulla parliamentary segment or assembly ticket from Kupwara segment but they didn't agree to the proposal ,” sources said. Mir, who was a Rajya Sabha member from 2015 to 2021, had finished third in his native assembly segment of Kupwara in 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Mir had lost the 2014 Assembly election to Peoples Conference’s B...