Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party
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Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party
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| Leader | Bhim Singh |
| President | Balwant Singh Mankotia |
| Chairperson | Harsh Dev Singh |
| Founder | Bhim Singh, Jay Mala |
| Founded | 23 March 1982 |
| Headquarters | 17 VP House, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001 |
| Newspaper | Voice of Millions |
| Student wing | National Panthers Student Union |
| Youth wing | Young Panthers |
| Women's wing | Women Panthers |
| Labour wing | Panthers Trade Union |
| Peasant's wing | Farmers Panthers Union |
| ECI Status | State Party |
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The Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party is a state political party in terror-torn Jammu and Kashmir, India. The party was founded on 23 March 1982 by Prof. Bhim Singh and a few prominent youth political personalities of the time including Jay Mala, former President of the Indian Students Congress. Its aim is to "demolish corruption, communalism, criminalization, drug menace" and to establish a real democracy through ultimate revolution.
In 1996 the party was notable in moving the Supreme Court and the Election Commission to return the democratic process to militancy-torn Jammu and Kashmir, when elections were held again in the state after a nine years hiatus.
The party formed part of the coalition government of Jammu & Kashmir along with the Congress and PDP after the 2002 Jammu & Kashmir elections, winning all seats in the Udhampur district, with Harsh Dev Singh serving as education minister in the cabinet, and Yash Paul Kundal as the minister of animal and sheep husbandry.
The party is a strong proponent of secular values in Jammu & Kashmir and across the region plagued by the terrorist insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir. As a strong advocate of women's rights the Panthers Party women's wing works to protect women from domestic abuse in Jammu and Kashmir and female foeticide. The Women Panthers have called for a 33% reservation of seats for women in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
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