Altaf Ahmad Wani

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Altaf Ahmad Wani, also known as Altaf Kuloo, (born 1972) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as a Cabinet Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment Department, Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj in Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir. He is a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly representing the constituency of Pahalgam. He is the only son of Ghulam Rasool Wani, Engineer-turned-politician, was known to people more as a businessman who had an instinct for educational development and started his career by opening a private school in South Kashmir, Delhi Public School, Anantnag. He started political career in 2008 and unsuccessfully contested his first assembly elections on the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference ticket in the same year. He was later nominated as the Member of Legislative Council in 2009. Born in an upper-middle class business family in Aishmuqam area of Islamabad, he saw a meteoric rise within the JKNC party in rather a short span of...

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