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G. N. Ratanpuri Biography
He was born on 5 March 1954 in Ratnipora of Pulwama District, Jammu and Kashmir. Ratanpuri belongs to the Wani caste. He received his early schooling from a local school and then graduated from the University of Kashmir in the year 1976. After graduation Ratanpuri joined the Urdu Newspaper Daily Aftaab as Assistant Editor and continued to work with the paper till 1979. In year 1979 at a young age he was appointed as the editor of the Nawa-e-Subh which was published by the then ruling party Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. Working at the Nawa-e-Subh was instrumental for Ratanpuri in developing acquaintance with then Chief Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. He joined All India Radio at Srinagar in the year 1981 after being selected by the Union Public Service Commission as a Programme Officer, but continued to work for Nawa-e-Subh till the death of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. By the year 2000 he had become one of the renowned interviewers in the State of J&K.
Ratanpuri had campaigned for Omar Abdullah in the Lok Sabha in 2004. In 2008 Omar Abdullah asked him to contest elections from his party, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, to which he agreed. Consequently, he had to seek premature retirement in order to contest the Assembly Elections. In his political debut the result of the election was not in his favour and he lost the election by a huge margin to Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party candidate Mohd. Khalil Bandh. Even though unsuccessful in the assembly elections but due to his stature, his then party JKNC in July 2009 nominated him to be the member of Rajya Sabha, to which he was elected in August 2009. As a Member of Parliament (India) he was the member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour, Parliamentary Forum on Children and the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for HRD Ministry. Before his resignation from Jammu & Kashmir National Conference he was the Vice President for the party form South Kashmir.
Ratanpuri made headlines in the State of J&K during the 2010 Kashmir unrest . He openly opposed the policies of his Government and criticised Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of the State. This led to the creation of differences between Ratanpuri and Omar Abdullah.
Ratanpuri was very vocal in the Parliament with regard to the Kashmir issue. During the Joint session of the Parliament in early 2013, Ratanpuri rose to disrupt the address of the President of India holding black placards in both hands, demanding return of the mortal remains of Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Afzal Guru.
Though a member of mainstream political party Ratanpuri in March 2013 met the Hurriyat Leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani at his New Delhi residence, where Geelani was under continuous detention for weeks together. According to Ratanpuri he was instrumental in release of the Veteran Hurriyat Leader from house arrest after he met the Union Home Minister S. K. Shinde and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and demanded Geelani’s release. Geelani was released with 24 hours after Ratanpuri’s meet with the two Union Ministers.
Ratanpuri again lost the state legislative assembly elections in 2014 to Mohd Khalil Bandh. Though again unsuccessful the loss was less disappointing than the previous one as this time he had lost by only a margin of 1032 votes (3.45% of the valid votes).
What's G. N. Ratanpuri Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
G. N. Ratanpuri Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
| Childrens | Not Available |
