Altaf Ahmad Wani
Altaf Kaloo | |
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| Altaf Ahmad Wani | |
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| Member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 8 October 2024 | |
| In office 2014–2018 | |
| Member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council | |
| In office 2009–2014 | |
Altaf Ahmad Wani, also known as Altaf Kuloo, (born 1972) is an Indian politician who is a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly representing the constituency of Pahalgam.
He is the only son of Ghulam Rasool Wani, Engineer-turned-politician, was known to people more as a businessman who had an instinct for educational development and started his career by opening a private school in South Kashmir, Delhi Public School, Anantnag. He started political career in 2008 and unsuccessfully contested his first assembly elections on the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference ticket in the same year. He was later nominated as the Member of Legislative Council in 2009.
Born in an upper-middle class business family in Aishmuqam area of Islamabad, he saw a meteoric rise within the JKNC party in rather a short span of time. Top JKNC sources said Kuloo is in the good books of the party top brass and enjoys the kind of patronage, which other party members with a standing of decades in the party don't have.[1] Kuloo was elected to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly constituency of Pahalgam in 2014.[2][3][4]
In Vidhansabha elections 2014, Altaf Ahmad Wani of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference party won with 25,232 votes.
The runner up was Rafi Ahmad Mir of JKPDP party. The margin of victory was 904 votes.
.In 2024 Assembly elections Altaf Ahmad Wani won the Pahalgam seat by a margin of 13756 votes. Wani has defeated key opponents Rafi Ahmed Mir of Jammu And Kashmir Apni Party; and Shabir Ahmad Sediqui of Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party.
Electoral performance
| Election | Constituency | Party | Result | Votes % | Opposition Candidate | Opposition Party | Opposition vote % | Ref | ||
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| 2024 | Pahalgam | JKNC | Won | 52.25% | Rafi Ahmed Mir | JKAP | 24.83% | [5] | ||
| 2014 | Pahalgam | JKNC | Won | 44.67% | Rafi Ahmad Mir | JKPDP | 43.07% | [6] | ||
| 2008 | Pahalgam | JKNC | Lost | 27.15% | Rafi Ahmad Mir | JKPDP | 49.29% | [7] | ||
References
- ^ "A Star Fall ". Kashmir Life. 23 September 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
- ^ "Altaf Ahmad Wani Won". NDTV Elections. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
- ^ "Pahalgam to witness triangular contest". NYOOOZ. 13 December 2014. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
- ^ "Altaf Ahmad Wani". Association for Democratic Reforms.
- ^ Election Commission of India (8 October 2024). "J&K Assembly Election Results 2024 - Bandipora". Archived from the original on 10 October 2024. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
- ^ "Jammu & Kashmir 2014 - Jammu & Kashmir - Election Commission of India". eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019.
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2008 to the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (pdf) on 25 December 2024. Retrieved 25 December 2024.