Yash Paul Kundal

Yash Paul Kundal
President of Young Panthers (JKNPP)
Assumed office
November 2014
Preceded by Syed Mohammad Rafiq Shah
Animal and Sheep Husbandry Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
2002–2008
Governor Srinivas Kumar Sinha
Succeeded by Governor's rule
Member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
In office
2002–2014
Succeeded by Devinder Kumar Manyal
Constituency Samba, Jammu
Preceded by Som Nath
Personal details
Born Jammu and Kashmir
Political party Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party
Education Jammu University

Yash Paul Kundal is an Indian Politician. He is the state president for Young Panthers, the youth wing of the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party.[1][2] He has twice been a Member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly,[3] and served as the Minister of Animal and Sheep Husbandry from 2002-2008.[4]

Early life

Yash Paul graduated from Jammu University in 1997.[5]

Career

Yash Paul Kundal has won two elections for the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in Samba, Jammu.[6] After the 2002 Jammu and Kashmir general elections, he served as the Minister of Animal and Sheep Husbandry in the government. After his second election victory in 2008 Jammu and Kashmir elections he was part of the opposition.[7]

In November 2014, he was appointed as the state president of Young Panthers.[8]

In this tenure as a MLA he supported the Indian Border Security Force's tree planting drive, being their chief guest and planting the first tree for the BSF in his constituency of Samba. The BSF went on to plant 200,000 saplings.[9]

Yash Pual along with Harsh Dev Singh led protests in Jammu on 18 September 2016 against Pakistan after 2016 Uri attack on an Indian army base. They had accused Pakistan of supporting the terrorist attacks.[10]

In October 2016, he had accused the police of not pressing appropriate charges against BJP workers that brutally assaulted Bishan Dass, a scheduled caste youth, at Ramnagar Temple. He wanted the case to be registered as attempted murder. He alleged that hate crimes against scheduled caste members had risen in the area as consequence of recent BJP electoral victories, stating seven unexplained deaths of scheduled caste members had gone unsolved in the area over a period of 18 months.[11] Previously in the December 2014 Jammu and Kashmir general elections he had lost his seat to a BJP candidate.

References

  1. ↑ "BJP-PDP coalition pursuing anti-national agenda of secessionists: Harsh". State Times. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  2. ↑ "BJP has got decimated, melted before PDP: Harsh". Early Times. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  3. ↑ "Despite tall claims of MLA, Samba remains neglected". Daily Excelsior. 2014-09-07. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  4. ↑ "KV Nagrota organizes 29th National Youth Parliament Competition". Daily Excelsior. 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  5. ↑ "YASH PAUL KUNDAL(JKNPP):Constituency- Samba(SAMBA)". myneta.info. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  6. ↑ "Education, key to all Human development: Kundal". Scoop News. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  7. ↑ "Panthers fall flat". Daily Excelsior. 2014-12-24. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  8. ↑ "Kundal appointed Young Panthers President". Early Times. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  9. ↑ "BSF organizes plantation drive at Samba, Udhampur". Daily Excelsior. 2014-08-20. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  10. ↑ "Massive anti-Pakistan protests in Jammu". Tribune India. 19 September 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  11. ↑ "Kundal seeks registration of case against culprits". Kashmir Times. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
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