Nasir Aslam Wani (Sogami)
Nasir Aslam Wani | |
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Nasir Aslam Wani at State Legislative Assembly, Srinagar, 2013 | |
Born |
Nasir Aslam Wani August 31, 1964 Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir |
Residence | Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir |
Other names | Nasir Sogami |
Occupation | Politician |
Political party | Jammu and Kashmir National Conference |
Spouse(s) | Samia Nasir (married 1990) |
Children | Saadat and Sarmad (sons) |
Website |
jknc |
Mr. Nasir Aslam Wani , (also known as: Nasir Sogami, born on 31st Aug 1964) in Rajbagh, Srinagar, is a politician of Jammu and Kashmir and belongs to National Conference party. He has served the State as the Minister of State for Tourism & Culture, Housing & Urban Development, PHE, Revenue & Relief and later shouldering the responsibility of Home department as an additional portfolio on his shoulders. Mr. Sogami is presently the Provincial President of National Conference for Kashmir. Having a stable and strong political background, he contested elections in 2008 from Amirakadal Constituency, the main Business, Commercial and Educational hub of summer capital Srinagar. The overwhelming support of people brought him great success in 2008 elections. His determined efforts have made it possible to strengthen the treads of hope, which the people have in him. He was second in command when Omar Abdullah rose to the top ranks of Youth national Conference before taking over as the charge as president of the Grand Old Party in 2001. YNC was then just Omar and Nasir and it was never revived. Nasir, descendant of an influential political family earlier concentrated on Lolab Valley. At Amirakadal, Nasir polled 3922 votes against 3103 of his rival Parvez Ahmad of PDP. None of the 27 other candidates could get more than 1000 votes in the constituency where a high profile Amreen Badar of Congress polled only 407 votes.
References
- ↑ "JKNC Who's Who, Nasir Aslam Wani"
- ↑ http://myneta.info/jk2008/candidate.php?candidate_id=349 "Info about Nasir Aslam Wani"
- ↑ http://jklegislativeassembly.nic.in/Misc/who%20is%20who%202009.pdf "Legislative Assembly"
- ↑ http://ibnlive.in.com/newstopics/nasir-aslam-wani.html "Nasir Wani news latest"
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/Nasiraslamwani "Nasir Wani Facebook"
- ↑ http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/srinagar-city-to-have-56-new-bus-bays-addl-parking-lots-nasir/page5-1-19/ "Nasir Wani Minister for Home affairs chairing meeting"
- ↑ "Epilogue, Vol 3, Issue 1, District Srinagar."