Drabu quits PDP

  Srinagar: The PDP suffered another jolt on Thursday when its senior leader and former finance minister Haseeb Drabu announced his resignation from the party.

In his resignation letter, Drabu, a well-known economist who has also served as chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank, said his legislative engagement has prematurely come to an end with the dissolution of the state assembly. "I don't agree with the timing and manner in which it was done. It doesn't credit either the democratic system or its custodian participants with any glory, whatsoever. "Be that as it may, the time has come for me to bid adieu!" Drabu, who was the editor of a business daily earlier in his career, said.
 
The letter, which was posted by Drabu on his personal twitter handle, said his exit from the PDP had been coming for a while now. "Even though I have not been a dissident... I have disengaged myself from party affairs for quite some time now," he wrote in the letter. 

He said he did not believe in precipitating the matter because he thought it to be morally and ethically wrong to leave the party under whose aegis, he had contested his maiden elections to the state assembly. "Now that it is over, I am hereby resigning from the Jammu and Kashmir PDP," he said. 

After Imran Ansari, Drabu is the second leader to abandon the party, following dissolution of the state assembly on November 21.