Kashmir Impulse Desk
Srinagar, Oct 27
Altaf Ahmad Wani (Kaloo) has joined Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s cabinet.
He won the Pahalgam Assembly constituency in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district in 2014 and 2024.
Wani’s political career includes an unsuccessful bid in the 2008 Assembly election and a nomination to the Legislative Council in 2009.
He won his first Assembly election in 2014, defeating Rafi Ahmed Mir of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) by 904 votes.
Wani received 25,232 votes to Mir’s 24,328.
The two contested Pahalgam again in 2024.
Wani, standing for the National Conference (NC), won 26,210 votes, defeating Mir, who was then contesting for the Apni Party, by 13,756 votes.
Wani studied mechanical engineering at Islamia Institute of Technology in Bangalore, graduating in 1995.
