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It was his initiative that the historic meeting of the GST Council which approved the rate structure, was held at Srinagar first time outside New Delhi.Īs finance minister of J&K, he designed and negotiated a Rs 80,000 crore development package for J&K which was announced by the prime minister in May 2015. Īs a state finance minister, he was an active member of the GST council in its most crucial phase of formulating and introducing the new tax regime in India. Soon after Drabu was dropped from the cabinet in March 2018, the alliance broke and the BJP-PDP government in J&K fell. After three months of negotiations with BJP, Drabu along with Ram Madhav of the BJP scripted the basis of the BJP-PDP alliance. In early 2015, J&K PDP founder & patron, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed chose Drabu as the interlocutor from his party to hammer out an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party. When he took over it was ranked 24th in financial management. This is as per the Public Affairs Index (PAI) by the Public Affairs Centre India, a not-for-profit research think tank. Under his watch as the finance minister of J&K, Jammu and Kashmir reached Rank 7 in fiscal management, leaving behind states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.
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His most recent engagement, 2015 to 2018, has been as finance minister, of J&K. He continues to be a member of the Legislative Assembly of J&K. In 2014, Drabu joined the J&K Peoples Democratic Party (J&KPDP) Later in the year, he contested and won with a huge margin the elections to the Legislative Assembly of J&K from Rajpora Constituency in Pulwana district. He has worked as a lawmaker, policy planner, banker and an economic commentator.
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Haseeb A Drabu is professional economist with a diverse skill set and wide-ranging experience.