06-21-2006, 11:42 AM
More on Mir
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <b>Mir, 47, an MLA from South Kashmir constituency Dooru, was chosen by the Congress for a year-long training in political coordination in 1980. Mir steadily strengthened his political contacts in the partyâs central leadership and also joined former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhiâs election campaign. Sources said Mir had gone to New Delhi to lobby for a berth in the forthcoming expansion of the Ghulam Nabi Azad Cabinet.</b>
The other one arrested today, <b>Raman Mattoo, 42, is the only Kashmiri Pandit MLA and was junior Industries Minister in the Mufti government</b>. A prominent businessman, Mattoo is the son-in-law of former Law Minister and National Conference leader P L Handoo.
He joined politics in 1993 but came to the limelight after he won the Habakadal constituency as an Independent in 2002 elections and was subsequently inducted in the <b>Congress-PDP coalition as a minister</b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <b>Mir, 47, an MLA from South Kashmir constituency Dooru, was chosen by the Congress for a year-long training in political coordination in 1980. Mir steadily strengthened his political contacts in the partyâs central leadership and also joined former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhiâs election campaign. Sources said Mir had gone to New Delhi to lobby for a berth in the forthcoming expansion of the Ghulam Nabi Azad Cabinet.</b>
The other one arrested today, <b>Raman Mattoo, 42, is the only Kashmiri Pandit MLA and was junior Industries Minister in the Mufti government</b>. A prominent businessman, Mattoo is the son-in-law of former Law Minister and National Conference leader P L Handoo.
He joined politics in 1993 but came to the limelight after he won the Habakadal constituency as an Independent in 2002 elections and was subsequently inducted in the <b>Congress-PDP coalition as a minister</b>
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