After six months of its launch, Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (AP) on Friday appointed first batch of office bearers, a spokesman of the AP said this afternoon.

He said AP president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari  appointed the first batch of office-bearers and senior leader Ghulam Hassan Mir has been appointed as the Senior Vice President of the party.

Bukhari also appointed Aijaz Ahmad Khan,  Choudhary Zulfikar Ali,  Zaffar Iqbal Manhas and Usman Majid as the Vice Presidents of the Party.

He said Rafi Ahmad Mir,  Vijay Bakaya and Vikram Malhotra have been nominated as General Secretaries of the party.

Bukhari has appointed Haji Mohammad Ashraf Mir and  Jagmohan Singh Raina as the Provincial President and Provincial Vice President of the party for Kashmir province respectively. He said Javid Hassan Baig has been appointed as the Spokesperson of the party.

Bukhari has appointed Manjit Singh and  Syed Asghar Ali as Provincial President and Provincial Vice President respectively for Jammu province.

He said Smt Namrita Sharma has been appointed as the In-charge Womens’ Wing of AP for Jammu province.

The AP was launched after about three dozen former ministers, legislators and leaders, mostly from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Congress left their parties and joined AP.