Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
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Born | Rubaiya Sayeed)[1] | 12 January 1936
Alma mater | Aligarh Muslim University |
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (12 January 1936 – 7 January 2016) was an Indian politician who served twice as the
Early life
Mufti Sayeed was born on 1936 in
Politician and former chief minister of Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti is his daughter.[1][8][9]
Political party affiliations
Sayeed started his political career in the 1950s in the Democratic National Conference, a splinter group of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference led by Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq. He was appointed as the district convenor of the party,[10] which merged back into the National Conference in late 1960.[11]
In 1962, he was elected to the
In January 1965, the National Conference merged into the Indian National Congress.[12] Thus Sayeed became a member of Congress.
In 1972, Sayeed became a cabinet minister and, the president of the state Congress unit.
He rejoined the Congress under
Political career
Chief Minister: First tenure (2002–2005)
Mohammad Sayeed participated in the 2002 assembly election and won 18 assembly seats for his Peoples Democratic Party. He went on to form a coalition government with the Indian National Congress, and was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir for a term of three years.[16]
In 2003, he merged the autonomous
Chief Minister: Second tenure (2015–2016)
In the
Union Minister for Home Affairs
In 1989, within few days of taking office as the
Attacks on his family and himself
Besides attacks on family members Sayeed also survived attacks on his life by Kashmiri separatists. His daughter Rubaiya Sayeed was also
Death
On 24 December 2015, Sayeed was admitted to the
Reactions to this death came from Prime Minister
According to party member and PDP Chief Spokesperson Mirza Mehboob Beg,[26] the PDP supported his daughter, Mehbooba Mufti, as the next chief minister, while coalition ally BJP expressed "no objection" to her succeeding her father.[29]
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has been laid to rest in Dara Shikoh Garden Bijbehara.[citation needed]
See also
- 2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election
- List of chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir
- Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party
References
- ^ a b "Live: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to be laid to rest in Bijbehara; Seven-day state mourning declared". Daily News and Analysis. 7 January 2016.
- ^ "Mufti Mohammad Sayeed: Another chance in a chequered career". Business Standard. 24 December 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ "Mufti Mohammad Sayeed: Much more than Delhi's man in Kashmir". Hindustan Times. 7 January 2016.
- ^ "The Sunday Story: A show of hands". The Indian Express. 4 January 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ ScoopWhoop (7 January 2016). "Deceased J&K CM Mufti Mohd Sayeed Changed The Way India Negotiated With Terrorists. Here Are 10 Facts You Should Know About Him". ScoopWhoop. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ "The Sunday Story: A show of hands". March 2015.
- ^ "Dulat disclosures".
- ^ Masroor, Shujaat Bukhari and Riyaz (4 April 2016). "Kashmir's first woman chief minister". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ "J&K gets its first woman CM in Mehbooba Mufti; BJP gets more Cabinet berths - Firstpost". www.firstpost.com. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ a b c Nistula Hebbar, J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed dead, The Hindu, 7 January 2016.
- ^ Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace 2003, p. 77.
- ^ Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace 2003, p. 82.
- ^ IBNLive. 7 January 2016.
- ^ Prabhat, Abhishek (29 October 2002). "Profile: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
- ^ "Mufti: A man caught in the 'mid-stream' tragedy". Hindustan Times. 7 January 2016.
- ^ "New leader promises Kashmir 'healing'". BBC News. BBC. 3 November 2002. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
- ^ "Mufti disbands SOG, merges force with police". Economic Times. 25 February 2003. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ "Mufti Mohammad Sayeed: A master politician who tried to nurture true Indian constituency in Kashmir". Daily News and Analysis. 8 January 2016.
- ^ Amit Chaturvedi (27 February 2015). "PM Modi Will Attend Oath Ceremony, Says Jammu and Kashmir's Chief Minister-to-be Mufti Sayeed". NDTV.com.
- ^ a b Sreedharan, Chindu (18 September 1999). "'Elections in J&K have not been fair since 1987'". Rediff.com. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
- ^ DIN, ZAHIR-UD (20 January 2016). "On 'Holocaust' day, Kashmiris seek probe into Pandit exodus". Srinagar. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ Din, Zahir-ud (1 April 2016). "PROBE THE EXODUS". Kashmir Ink. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "19/01/90: When Kashmiri Pandits fled Islamist terror". Rediff. 19 January 2005. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- ^ "Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, passes away at AIIMS Delhi". Indian Express. 7 January 2016.
- ^ "J&K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passes away". ABP Live. Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ a b c "'He provided a healing touch to Kashmir': From PM Modi to Kejriwal, condolences pour in for Mufti Mohammad Sayeed - Firstpost". 7 January 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ Yeshe Choesang, His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet offers condolences to Ms Mufti, 11 January 2016, Tibet Post International
- ^ "Mufti Mohammad Sayeed laid to rest - Only Kashmir - Behind the News". Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ a b "CM who brought Jammu with Kashmir dies".
Bibliography
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