Srinagar: The ruling National Conference has appointed Junaid Azim Mattu as the new party spokesman for Kashmir Province and has also constituted a new Media Cell for Kashmir.
In a statement issued here, the National Conference Provincial President Mr. Nasir Aslam Wani said that Junaid Mattu will also head and be In-charge of the Media Cell at the NC Headquarters at Nawa-e-Subh Complex at Srinagar to which four new members have been nominated. The members of the NC Media Cell are Advocate Zaffar Shaheen, Engineer Syed Shujat Chashoo, Mr. Hilal Ahmed Sofi and Mr. Tanveer Ahmed.
Nasir Aslam Wani, while congratulating Junaid and the young Media Cell team, has emphasized the importance of effective political communications and media management as allied functions of a political party as historic, diverse and deep-rooted as National Conference.
Meanwhile, Junaid Mattu has thanked the NC president Dr. Farooq Abdullah, the Party Working President and Chief Minister Mr. Omar Abdullah, NC General Secretary Advocate Sheikh Nazir Ahmed, NC Additional General Secretary Dr. Sheikh Mustafa Kamal and NC Provincial President Kashmir Mr. Nasir Aslam Wani for constituting the new Media Cell and for ‘reposing faith in him and his colleagues’. Mattu has also congratulated his young colleagues on their nomination to the Media Cell.