PTI, JAMMU: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was today re-elected the president of the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the next three years. Mehbooba’s election for the sixth consecutive term was unanimous, party leaders said. She thanked party leaders for “reposing their trust and electing me as their president”. Will work tirelessly to fulfil our shared vision of
development, inclusiveness and reconciliation in J&K,” she wrote on Twitter.
The PDP leadership met at the official residence of the chief minister here for the election of the party president. A law graduate, 57-year-old Mehbooba took the plunge into mainstream politics of the state in 1996 by joining the Congress, along with her father, at a time when militancy was at its peak in the state. She emerged from the shadow of her illustrious father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who founded the PDP in 1999, to head Jammu and Kashmir as the first woman chief minister of the state last year.
