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In its election manifesto, Altaf Bukhari's J&K Apni Party has promised the restoration of statehood, the release of imprisoned youth and the quashing of Public Safety Act. (PTI/File)
Altaf Bukhari Election Results 2024 Live: Apni Party chief Syed Altaf Bukhari is the richest candidate in the fray in J&K elections and is up against PDP's Mohammed Iqbal Trumboo, Conference's Mushtaq Guroo and BJP's Hilal Ahmad Wani
As counting of votes begins for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections 2024, leads and trends will start coming in shortly. Among the prominent candidates in the Union Territory is Apni Party chief Syed Altaf Bukhari who is contesting from the Channapora seat in Srinagar. The Channapora constituency voted in the second phase of three-phase Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Altaf Bukhari Net Worth: Bukhari is one of only three candidates in the Jammu and Kashmir elections to have total assets more than Rs 100 crore, according to a report from the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Jammu & Kashmir Election Watch. He is, in fact, the richest man in the fray, with total assets worth Rs 165 crore.
In the Channapora seat, Bukhari is up against PDP’s Mohammed Iqbal Trumboo, Conference’s Mushtaq Guroo and BJP’s Hilal Ahmad Wani.
In its election manifesto, Bukhari’s J&K Apni Party has promised the restoration of statehood, the release of imprisoned youth and the quashing of Public Safety Act (PSA). It added that if voted to power, the party will fight to restore the amended laws, protect land, jobs and return of Kashmiri Pandits.
Bukhari has also promised to protect the culture and identity of J&K, and restoration of bicameral legislature as the state had before abrogation of Article 370.
Other promses include the return of migrant Kashmiri Pandits, reviewing the Forest Rights Act, transfer of hydropower projects from NHPC to J&K ownership, ensuring job quotas for locals in hydropower projects, development of tourism by focusing on historical places and those unexplored places with scenic beauty, youth employment and social security by enhancing the monthly pension to old aged people, widows and people with disability from present Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000.
Apni Party also promised free 500 units of electric power per month to every household in J&K.
