Shah's widow elected ANC President

Widow of former Chief Minister G M Shah was on Thursday elected president of Awami National Conference (ANC).

Khalida Shah was unanimously elected president of the party following the death of her husband on January six.

The name of Khalida, who is also the elder daughter of National Conference founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, was proposed by party General secretary Mir Amanullah Kanth and seconded by Provincial president of the party for Jammu Gian Singh at a meeting of the working committee, a spokesman of the ANC said.

ANC was formed on July 2, 1984 after Shah toppled the National Conference government of his brother-in-law Farooq Abdullah.

Along with 12 other MLAs, Shah withdrew support to Abdullah and the ANC formed a government with outside support from then congress legislature party