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Mehbooba Mufti Mehbooba Mufti DOB: 22nd May, 1959

Mehbooba Mufti is an Indian politician and former chief minister of Indian Occupied Kashmir (4th April 2016-19th June 2018). Mehbooba is the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and India's second Muslim woman chief minister after Syeda Anwara Taimur of Assam. She is the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mehbooba suppoted the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2016 but however she resigned on 19th June,2018 after BJP withdrew support from the coalition government. Mehbooba Mufti was a member of Indian parliament representing Anantnag in the 16th Lok Sabha. She had also represented Anantnag in the 14th Lok Sabha. Her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was appointed as India's home minister in 1989 and was released after a few days in exchange for some terrorists. In 1996 state assembly elections, Mehbooba Mufti was one of the popular elected members from Bijbehra on INC ticket. Mehbooba Mufti contested in the parliamentary elections in 1999 from Srinagar and she lost to the sitting member Omar Abdullah. She won her Pahalgam seat from South Kashmir, when assembly elections were held again in 2002.

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Why did BJP pull out of race in Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir?

Apr 22, 2024, 03:51 PM IST

Polling in Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat will take place in the third phase on May 7. Jammu and Kashmir has a total of five Lok Sabha seats including Anantnag-Rajouri , Baramulla, Srinagar, Udhampur and Jammu.

Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Congress, National Conference

Jammu and Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti asks Congress to rethink alliance with Farooq Abdullah’s NC

Apr 21, 2024, 04:03 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti said that Congress should rethink their support to the National Conference after Chaudhary Mohammad Akram equated the former with the BJP.

Mehbooba Mufti, jammu and kashmir, lok sabha elections

Lok Sabha Election: PDP releases poll manifesto, Mehbooba alleges J-K converted to 'open air prison'

Apr 19, 2024, 06:18 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti released the election manifesto of PDP and alleged that Jammu and Kashmir was converted to "open air prison".

Lok Sabha elections 2024, Mehbooba Mufti, Jammu and Kashmir

Lok Sabha polls 2024: Mehbooba Mufti to contest against Ghulam Nabi Azad from Anantnag-Rajouri seat

Apr 07, 2024, 04:19 PM IST

Polling in Jammu and Kashmir will take place in the first five phases during the Lok Sabha elections. There are a total of five parliamentary seats in the union territory.

INDIA Bloc, Opposition, Lok Sabha polls 2024

Mehbooba Mufti's PDP likely to contest Lok Sabha polls alone after Omar Abdullah's snub

Mar 08, 2024, 05:16 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections are due to be held in April-May this year. The polling schedule is yet to be announced by the election commission. Ahead of the elections, the I.N.D.I.A bloc may get another blow in Jammu and Kashmir as alliance member PDP may decide to contest alone.

The SUV that met an accident

Mehbooba Mufti's SUV meets with accident on the way to Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag

Jan 11, 2024, 03:57 PM IST

According to PDP, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and her security personnel escaped injuries. However, the details about how the accident happened are yet to be received.

Mehbooba Mufti, Jammu and Kashmir, Article 370, Supreme Court verdict on Article 370

Mehbooba says 'Supreme Court's decision on Article 370 is not God's verdict', vows to continue fight

Dec 17, 2023, 04:11 PM IST

The Supreme Court, in a historic judgement, had upheld the Centre's move to abrogate Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir. Reacting sharply to the order, Mehbooba Mufti said that the decision of the top court "is not God's verdict", and vowed to continue her fight.

Omar Abdullah

Omar Abdullah on Supreme Court's Article 370 verdict: 'Disappointed but not disheartened'

Dec 11, 2023, 01:02 PM IST

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah conveyed his disappointment but asserted he is not disheartened in response to the Supreme Court's verdict on Article 370.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti

Mehbooba Mufti re-elected as PDP president for 3 years

Oct 26, 2023, 12:34 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti's name was proposed by senior Vice President Abdul Rehman Veeri and seconded by General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Hanjura.

Mehbooba Mufti's daughter Iltiza

Abrogation of Article 370 illegal, events after it extremely unsettling: Mehbooba Mufti's daughter

Oct 25, 2023, 07:33 PM IST

After 2019, a worrying pattern has emerged in Kashmir. Whenever PDP wants to hold a peaceful protest over the abrogation of Article 370 or on Palestine situation, we are not being allowed by the administration.

Jammu and Kashmir former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah

World proved there are different laws for Russia and Israel, says Omar Abdullah

Oct 24, 2023, 05:08 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir former chief minister Omar Abdullah has said that it's good India is sending aid to Palestine but called out the world for differentiating between Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars.

Majid Hyderi (left)

​J-K: Journalist arrested for 'criminal conspiracy, extortion', Mehbooba Mufti alleges 'intimidation

Sep 15, 2023, 05:03 PM IST

The journalist, identified as Majid Hyderi who is a resident of the Peerbagh area, was arrested after the police lodged a case against him following a court’s order, the police said.

Iltija Mufti

Jammu and Kashmir: Mehbooba Muftt's daughter Iltija appointed her media advisor

Aug 30, 2023, 10:40 PM IST

The decision to appoint the 35-year-old as media advisor to the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister was taken by the party's high command.

Mufti attacks BJP

'Arguments in SC has exposed BJP': Mehbooba Mufti on petitions against abrogation of Article 370

Aug 16, 2023, 01:27 PM IST

'Arguments going in SC has exposed BJP': Mehbooba Mufti on petitions against abrogation of Article 370

Former PM Jawaharlal Nehru

'Nehru stood tall among enthusiastic Kashmiris': Mehbooba takes swipe at J-K LG's Tiranga rally

Aug 13, 2023, 02:05 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti took a swipe at Manoj Sinha over his 'Tiranga' rally and said that former PM Nehru stood among Kashmiris with the national flag while the J-K LG carried out the rally surrounded by a posse of security personnel.

Congress leader P Chidambaram

​Chidambaram questions Mehbooba's 'house arrest', alleges freedom suppressed 'most severely' in J-K

India | Aug 06, 2023, 11:09 AM IST

P Chidambaram questioned the alleged house arrest of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on the anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 and claimed that freedom is "most severely" suppressed in Jammu and Kashmir.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti

Jammu and Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti claims 'house arrest' on fourth anniversary of Art 370 abrogation

Aug 05, 2023, 12:51 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti claimed that she was put under house arrest on the fourth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370. She claimed that several of her party leaders were detained at the police stations.

Mehbooba Mufti

Mehbooba slams BJP over Maharashtra episode, says it will only unify Opposition

India | Jul 03, 2023, 07:07 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti slammed the BJP over the Maharashtra NCP split episode and said that it will only unify the Opposition.

Mehbooba Mufti, Jammu and Kashmir

Mehbooba Mufti 'reminds' CJI Chandrachud of Article 370, urges for early hearing in SC

India | Jul 01, 2023, 04:25 PM IST

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday urged CJI Chandrachud for an early hearing on the batch of petitions challenging the revocation of Article 370 from Constitution.

Mehbooba Mufti, jammu and kashmir

'J-K was a laboratory for BJP, will undertake Kashmirisation of entire country': Mehbooba Mufti

Politics | Jun 24, 2023, 05:22 PM IST

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday (June 24) said that Jammu and Kashmir, which she had once ruled before being bifurcated into two Union Territories, was a ‘laboratory’ for the BJP and alleged that the party would undertake 'Kashmirisation' of the whole country if comes back to power.

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