Srinagar: Former senior Peoples Democratic Party leader and cabinet minister Syed Basharat Bukhari on Wednesday joined the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference.
Bukhari, along with Peer Mohammad Hussain were expelled by PDP on Tuesday for “anti-party activities” soon after reports about their joining NC surfaced in the media.
Sources said that Bukhari joined the NC in presence of former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers and NC working president and President Omar Abdullah and Dr Farooq Abdullah.
Bukhari is an elder brother of assassinated journalist and editor of Rising Kashmir Syed Shujaat Bukhari.
