<p class="title">Former PDP leader and three-time MLA from Pulwama constituency in Jammu and Kashmir Mohammad Khalil Bandh on Sunday joined the National Conference.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was welcomed into the party fold by NC president Farooq Abdullah, a spokesman of the party said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Bandh, a founding member of the PDP, resigned from the party on Wednesday accusing its leadership of humiliating the old guard.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The party has upended after Mufti Mohammad Sayeed sahab's demise (in January 2016), where old/elected/experienced lot was not only neglected but humiliated to the core and few men with parachute launching decided/dictated and shaped a disaster of where we stand today," he wrote in his resignation letter to PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Bandh, who was elected to the state legislative assembly from Pulwama segment three times in a row in 2002, 2008 and 2014, was also Pulwama district president of the PDP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was the eighth legislator from the PDP to resign from the party after the PDP-BJP coalition government collapsed in June 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Others who have left the party include Altaf Bukhari, Haseeb Drabu, Basharat Bukhari, Imran Ansari, Abid Ansari and Abbas Wani (all former MLAs). </p>
<p class="title">Former PDP leader and three-time MLA from Pulwama constituency in Jammu and Kashmir Mohammad Khalil Bandh on Sunday joined the National Conference.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was welcomed into the party fold by NC president Farooq Abdullah, a spokesman of the party said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Bandh, a founding member of the PDP, resigned from the party on Wednesday accusing its leadership of humiliating the old guard.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The party has upended after Mufti Mohammad Sayeed sahab's demise (in January 2016), where old/elected/experienced lot was not only neglected but humiliated to the core and few men with parachute launching decided/dictated and shaped a disaster of where we stand today," he wrote in his resignation letter to PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Bandh, who was elected to the state legislative assembly from Pulwama segment three times in a row in 2002, 2008 and 2014, was also Pulwama district president of the PDP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was the eighth legislator from the PDP to resign from the party after the PDP-BJP coalition government collapsed in June 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Others who have left the party include Altaf Bukhari, Haseeb Drabu, Basharat Bukhari, Imran Ansari, Abid Ansari and Abbas Wani (all former MLAs). </p>