INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Conference got a shot in the arm after seven prominent persons, including a former legislator, joined the party in Jammu on Sunday.Former
MLA Zanskar Syed Mohammad Baqir Rizvi, former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson Abhijeet Jasrotia, lawyers Abrar Ahmad Khan and
Irfan Inqlabi, Parshotam Kumar, Ashish Pandita and Nitin Jamwal joined the Peoples Conference in presence of Mr Lone and senior leader Imran
the party's endeavour was to reach every nook and corner of Jammu and Kashmir to emerge as an alternative to the "two-family rule" in the
state.Mr Ansari said Peoples Conference was rapidly emerging as an alternative of constructive politics and would fight the traditional
system of "tyranny, corruption and monopoly" in all three regions of Jammu and Kashmir.Mr Rizvi had won the 2014 Assembly polls as an
Independent from Zanskar constituency of Ladakh region and later became part of the PDP-BJP government
He was appointed as a minister as well as the vice-chairman of the Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board.He was, however,
in support of the BJP during the Legislative Council elections a day earlier.
