| Tariq Hamid Karra | |
| Birth Date: | 1955 6, df=yes |
| Office: | President Jammu and Kashmir Congress Committee |
| Term Start: | 16 August 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Vikar Rasool Wani |
| Termstart1: | 8 October 2024 |
| Predecessor1: | Noor Mohd |
| Constituency1: | Central Shalteng |
| Office2: | Member of Parliament Lok Sabha |
| Term Start2: | 16 May 2014 |
| Term End2: | 17 Nov 2016 |
| Predecessor2: | Farooq Abdullah |
| Successor2: | Farooq Abdullah |
| Constituency2: | Srinagar |
| Office3: | Cabinet Minister of Finance, Planning & Development, Law, Parliamentary Affairs, Housing & Urban Development, Forest, Environment, Ecology Tourism Government of Jammu and Kashmir |
| Chief Minister3: | Ghulam Nabi Azad |
| Term Start3: | 2005 |
| Term End3: | 2008 |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Party: | Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party Indian National Congress [1] |
| Profession: | Politician |
| Source: | https://sansad.in/ls/members/biographyM/4819?from=members |
Tariq Hameed Karra (born 28 June 1955) is an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir and was a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Srinagar. He is currently serving as the President of Jammu Kashmir PCC. he is also a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Central Shalteng constituency.
He had won the 2014 Indian general election being a Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party candidate by defeating Dr. Farooq Abdullah of National Conference by more than 40,000 votes, and thereby handing the veteran politician his first ever electoral defeat in 4 decades. He was a fierce critic of the BJP-PDP alliance from the very beginning and resigned from the Lok Sabha and PDP, of which he was a founding member as a mark of protest against innocent civilian killings in September 2016 and later joined the Indian National Congress in February 2017 and was later nominated as a member of the Congress Working Committee, the first for any politician from the Kashmir valley. He has also served as the Finance, Planning and Law Minister for Jammu and Kashmir state. Currently, he is serving as JKPCC president and contesting assembly elections from the Central Shalteng Assembly constituency.[2] [3] [4] [5]
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