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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Yash Paul Kundal
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|birth_place=Jammu and Kashmir
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|office=President of [[Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party|Young Panthers (JKNPP)]]
|term_start=November 2014
|office1=Animal and Sheep Husbandry Minister of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]
|term_start1=2002
|term_end1=2008
|governor1=[[Srinivas Kumar Sinha]]
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|predecessor=Syed Mohammad Rafiq Shah
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'''Yash Paul Kundal''' is an Indian politician. He is the state president of Young Panthers, the youth wing of the [[Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.statetimes.in/bjp-pdp-coalition-pursuing-anti-national-agenda-secessionists-harsh/|title=BJP-PDP coalition pursuing anti-national agenda of secessionists: Harsh|website=State Times|access-date=7 January 2017}} {{dead link|date=September 2020}}<br>- {{Cite web|url=http://www.earlytimes.in/m/newsdet.aspx?q=178370|title=BJP has got decimated, melted before PDP: Harsh|website=Early Times|date=14 June 2016|access-date=7 January 2017}}</ref> He has twice been a Member of the [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/despite-tall-claims-mla-samba-remains-neglected/|title=Despite tall claims of MLA, Samba remains neglected|date=7 September 2014|newspaper=Daily Excelsior|access-date=7 January 2017}}</ref> and was the Minister of [[Animal husbandry in India|Animal and Sheep Husbandry]] from 2002 to 2008.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/kv-nagrota-organizes-29th-national-youth-parliament-competition/|title=KV Nagrota organizes 29th National Youth Parliament Competition|date=10 August 2016|newspaper=Daily Excelsior|access-date=7 January 2017}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Kundall graduated from [[Jammu University]] in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://myneta.info/jk2008/candidate.php?candidate_id=1030|title=YASH PAUL KUNDAL(JKNPP):Constituency - Samba(SAMBA)|website=myneta.info|access-date=7 January 2017}}</ref>

== Career ==
Kundal has won two elections for the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in [[Samba, Jammu]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://scoopnews.in/det.aspx?q=11115|title=Education, key to all Human development: Kundal|website=Scoop News|access-date=7 January 2017}}</ref> After the [[2002 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|2002 Jammu and Kashmir general elections]], he served as the Minister of Animal and Sheep Husbandry in the government. After his second election victory in [[2008 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|2008 Jammu and Kashmir elections]] he was part of the opposition.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/panthers-fall-flat/|title=Panthers fall flat|newspaper=Daily Excelsior|date=24 December 2014|author=Govind Sharma|access-date=7 January 2017}}</ref>

In November 2014, he was appointed as the state president of Young Panthers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=135257|title=Kundal appointed Young Panthers President|website=Early Times|date=11 July 2014|access-date=7 January 2017}}</ref>

As a [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] he supported the Indian [[Border Security Force]]'s tree planting drive, being their chief guest and planting the first tree in his constituency of Samba. The BSF went on to plant 200,000 [[sapling]]s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/bsf-organizes-plantation-drive-samba-udhampur/|title=BSF organizes plantation drive at Samba, Udhampur|date=20 August 2014|newspaper=Daily Excelsior|access-date=7 January 2017}}</ref>

Kundal, with [[Harsh Dev Singh]], led protests in Jammu on 18 September 2016 against Pakistan after the [[2016 Uri attack]] on an Indian army base, accusing Pakistan of supporting the terrorist attacks.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/jammu-kashmir/community/massive-anti-pakistan-protests-in-jammu/297766.html|title=Massive anti-Pakistan protests in Jammu|date=19 September 2016|work=Tribune India|access-date=7 January 2017}}</ref>

In October 2016, he accused the police of not pressing appropriate charges against [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] workers who brutally assaulted Bishan Dass, a [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|scheduled caste]] youth, at Ramnagar Temple. He wanted the case to be registered as attempted murder. He alleged that hate crimes against scheduled caste members had risen in the area as a consequence of recent BJP electoral victories, saying that seven unexplained deaths of scheduled caste members had gone unsolved in the area over a period of 18 months.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kashmirtimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=58404|title=Kundal seeks registration of case against culprits|date=10 June 2016|website=Kashmir Times|access-date=7 January 2017}}</ref> Previously, in the December [[2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|2014 Jammu and Kashmir general elections]], he had lost his seat to a BJP candidate.

In February 2020, Kundul was named as the Chairman of the National Panthers Party Working Committee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.statetimes.in/harsh-announces-panthers-committees-for-enhanced-public-outreach/|title=Harsh announces Panthers committees for enhanced public outreach|website=State Times|access-date=27 February 2020}} {{dead link|date=September 2020}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian politicians]]
[[Category:University of Jammu alumni]]

Yash Paul Kundal - Revision history

>FreeToDisagree: Removed the religion-parameter from the infobox since it is no longer in use.