Kashmir Impulse Desk
Srinagar, Oct 27
Shamim Firdous, a senior National Conference (NC) leader and three-time legislator from Srinagar’s Habba Kadal constituency, has become the second woman in Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s cabinet, after Sakina Itoo.
Firdous won the Habba Kadal seat in 2008 and retained it in the 2014 and 2024 Assembly elections.
In the 2024 contest, she polled 12,437 votes, defeating Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Ashok Kumar Bhat, who received 2899 votes, by 9538.
She holds a BA and an LLB with Honours from the University of Kashmir, which she completed in 1983.
Firdous has also chaired the Jammu and Kashmir State Commission for Women, with the rank of Minister of State, and has held responsibilities in the NC Women’s Wing.
