{"id":11662,"date":"2024-02-24T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T10:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=11662"},"modified":"2024-02-24T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T10:58:45","slug":"former-nc-leader-rafiq-shah-joins-bjp-in-jammu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/former-nc-leader-rafiq-shah-joins-bjp-in-jammu\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NC leader Rafiq Shah joins BJP in Jammu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU: <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/azad-slams-nc-pdp-for-deceiving-jk-people\/\">National Conference<\/a> leader and former Member of Legislative Council of Jammu and Kashmir, Sayed Mohammad Rafiq Shah, on Saturday joined the BJP. Shah was welcomed into the party by state BJP President <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/over-10000-bjp-workers-to-undertake-gaon-chalo-abhiyan-from-feb-8-raina\/\">Ravinder Raina<\/a>. Earlier this month, former Minister Mushtaq Bukhari joined the BJP at its headquarters in Jammu. Incidentally, several prominent leaders of the National Conference, including Kathua district president Sanjeev Khajuria, had joined the BJP. Many supporters and district officeholders also made the switch from the National Conference to the BJP last month.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11663\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-24-at-4.27.40-PM-263x300.png\" alt=\"Former NC leader Rafiq Shah joins BJP in Jammu\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NC leader Rafiq Shah joins BJP in Jammu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU: National Conference leader and former Member of Legislative Council of Jammu and Kashmir, Sayed Mohammad Rafiq Shah, on Saturday joined the BJP. Shah was welcomed into the party by state BJP President Ravinder Raina. Earlier this month, former Minister Mushtaq Bukhari joined the BJP at its headquarters in Jammu. Incidentally, several prominent leaders of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,15,89,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-header","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-national","category-political"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former NC leader Rafiq Shah joins BJP in Jammu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"National Conference leader and former Member of Legislative Council of Jammu and Kashmir, Sayed Mohammad Rafiq Shah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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