Ahead of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti’s party PDP has received a big blow. PDP chief spokesperson Suhail Bukhari quit the party on Tuesday. Bukhari was apparently upset at not being ordered to contest the elections. He was expected to contest from Wagura-Kiri, but former minister Basharat Bukhari’s return to the PDP last month has reduced Suhail Bukhari’s chances of getting the ticket. Journalist-turned-politician Bukhari was a close aide of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti and Bukhari also served as her media adviser when Mehbooba Mufti was the chief minister. Talking to reporters, Bukhari said, ‘I joined the party after the fall of the PDP-BJP government in 2019. It was a difficult time and in the last five years I have worked really hard to give identity and rights to the people of Kashmir and to strengthen the core idea of ​​PDP. When attempts were made to break the PDP, the party workers did not break. In all ups and downs stood with the party and youth and educated people also joined the party and contributed to it.’