Muzaffar Hussain Baig

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Muzaffar Hussain Baig
Baramulla
Chief-Patron of J&KPDP
In office
December 11 2018 – November 14 2020
PresidentMehbooba Mufti
Succeeded byposition abolished
Personal details
Born (1946-05-08) 8 May 1946 (age 77)
Advocate General, Politician
AwardsPadma Bhushan
As of 20 June, 2021
Source: [1]

Muzaffar Hussain Baig is an Indian politician from Kashmir. He was the former Deputy Chief Minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. On Republic Day of 2020 he received India's third highest civilian honour Padma Bhushan.[1][2]

Baig was the founding member of Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and was named as Patron of the party post-Mufti's death in 2016.

Awards

Padma Bhushan in 2020[3]

Early life

He was born in Wahidna, a small hilly village in Baramulla district of the Kashmir Valley. He received his master's degree from Harvard Law School.

Career

He started his political career in 1996 with the Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference where he held the position of Vice-Chairman. In 2002, he fought the Legislative Assembly election with the

Baramulla constituency. He was reelected in 2008.[citation needed] He held the position of Law Minister and Parliamentary Affairs Minister in the state cabinet for the period 2002–2006. Until 2006 he was Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.[4]

He served as Chief Spokesperson for the

Advocate General of the state of Jammu and Kashmir[5]
from 1987 to 1989.

Baig was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2014 from Baramulla.

In 2020, Baig was conferred the Padma Bhushan award, the third-highest civilian honor of India.[5]

Due to differences between him and

Sajjad Lone's Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference,[6][7]
Peoples Conference disowns senior leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig. Party general secretary Imran Ansari said Baig never joined JKPC.

References

  1. ISSN 0971-751X
    . Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  2. ISSN 0971-751X
    . Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Padma Awards 2020". padmaawards.gov.in. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  4. ^ "J&K: Hussain Baig appointed deputy chief minister". News18. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b Munshi, Suhas (25 January 2020). "PDP Co-founder Muzaffar Baig Honoured with Padma Bhushan". www.news18.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Ex-PDP patron Muzaffar Hussain Baig joins Sajad's People Conference". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  7. ^ "After Muzaffar Hussain Baig's 'ghar wapsi', People's Conference eyes pan-Kashmir expansion". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
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