In '71, he was deputy minister for irrigation in Syed Mir Qasim's cabinet but was later expelled after he resigned from his post following differences. He joined Sheikh Abdullah's National Conference in '76, left it a year later because he wasn't assigned a cabinet post.In the '77 polls, he became an MLA on a Janata ticket, only to resign from the party the following year. In '79, he floated the All J&K People's Conference and its militant wing, Al Burq. In '95, he was an executive founder-member of the Hurriyat.
Lonesome Dove
Unlike other Hurriyat leaders, he belonged to the breed of mainstream political leaders who possess that admirable instinct to judge the direction of the wind.
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