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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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Rahul Gandhi's padayatra concludes in Srinagar

'What Godse's ideology took away from J&K will be returned by a Gandhi': Mufti, Omar hail Rahul

India | Jan 30, 2023, 06:46 PM IST

Former J&K CMs Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti invoked Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary while praising Rahul Gandhi for the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

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Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra came 'like breath of fresh air' in J&K, says Mehbooba Mufti

India | Jan 28, 2023, 05:36 PM IST

Speaking about the yatra, PDP president Mufti said the Bharat Jodo Yatra was like a 'breath of fresh air' in Kashmir as it allowed people to come out of their homes in numbers for the first time since 2019.

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UP Oppn leaders to skip Bharat Jodo Yatra; Mehbooba Mufti to join Kashmir leg

India | Dec 27, 2022, 09:38 PM IST

Bharat Jodo Yatra: Congress said that it has invited several leaders of non-BJP parties, including Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati and RLD's Jayant Chaudhary, to take part in the Uttar Pradesh leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra from January 3.

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Delhi High Court allows Mehbooba Mufti to withdraw plea in PMLA case

India | Nov 30, 2022, 08:12 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti news: Bench of Justice Satish Chander Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad today allowed the withdrawal of plea after noting down the submission of Mufti's lawyer that the client has wished to withdraw the present petition.

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Mehbooba Mufti asked to vacate South Kashmir's government quarters

India | Nov 27, 2022, 01:37 PM IST

Earlier PDP president Mehbooba Mufti was asked to vacate her Srinagar residence.

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Mehbooba Mufti asked to vacate her official bungalow in Srinagar

India | Oct 21, 2022, 12:17 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti said she will consult her legal team on the notice received by her. She further said she does not own a place where she can stay.

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Mehbooba Mufti demands probe into militant's death in Shopian

India | Oct 19, 2022, 05:42 PM IST

J&K militant's death: Imran Bashir Ganai was arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing of two labourers at Harmain in Shopian district in the early hours of Tuesday.

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Mehbooba Mufti claims she is under 'house arrest' amid HM's Baramulla visit; J&K police deny charge

India | Oct 05, 2022, 12:25 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti took to Twitter and put out pictures of the alleged locking of the door of the main gate of her house.

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Kashmiri Pandit employees suffering due to BJP’s refusal to change its Kashmir strategy: Mehbooba

India | Sep 13, 2022, 07:41 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti said the Kashmiri Pandit employees need to be safeguarded and relocated outside the valley till the security situation improves.

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1989 kidnapping case: Tada court issues bailable warrant against Mehbooba Mufti's sister Rubaiya

India | Aug 23, 2022, 02:44 PM IST

1989 kidnapping case: Rubaiya Sayeed was abducted by Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front militants on December 8, 1989.

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Will not accept imported voters, PDP on inclusion of non-locals in J&K

India | Aug 22, 2022, 08:47 PM IST

Jammu & Kashmir: Scores of PDP activists assembled at the party headquarters in Gandhi Nagar and took out a protest rally towards the office of Chief Electoral Officer Hirdesh Kumar who had recently announced anyone living ordinarily in J&K can get enlisted in the union territory as a voter.

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Mehbooba Mufti placed under house arrest ahead of scheduled visit to Shopian

India | Aug 21, 2022, 12:52 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti today said, "GOI wants to push the plight of Kashmiri pandits under the rug because its their callous policies."

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Mehbooba Mufti on allowing outsiders to register as J-K voters: 'Last nail in coffin of democracy'

India | Aug 18, 2022, 02:11 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir is likely to get around 25 lakh additional voters, including outsiders, after the special summary revision of electoral rolls being held for the first time after the abrogation of Article 370.

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Mehbooba Mufti vows to restore J-K Constitution, BJP hits back

India | Aug 06, 2022, 07:00 AM IST

J-K BJP leader Ravinder Raina hit back at Mufti saying that the PDP chief is "frustrated" seeing massive support for Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav in the Valley.

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Mehbooba's new Twitter display pic shows tricolour, old J&K flag

India | Aug 03, 2022, 02:16 PM IST

The photograph was taken at a rally addressed by the prime minister during his Kashmir visit in November 2015 when Mufti Sayeed was chief minister of the erstwhile state.

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1989 kidnapping case: Rubaiya Sayeed, Mehbooba Mufti's sister identifies Yasin Malik among 4 accused

India | Jul 15, 2022, 07:00 PM IST

1989 kidnapping case: In her statement, Rubaiya Sayeed identified four accused including Yasin Malik, informed Monica Kohli, CBI lawyer.

Mehbooba Mufti claims house arrest in Srinagar

Kashmiri Pandit killing: Mehbooba Mufti claims house arrest in Srinagar

India | May 13, 2022, 12:43 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti said that she wanted to visit Budgam to express solidarity with Kashmiri Pandits but she was not allowed to leave her Srinagar residence.

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Mehbooba Mufti meets Sonia Gandhi in Delhi, discusses current political situation in country

India | Apr 18, 2022, 08:06 PM IST

Mufti spent some time with Gandhi and is learnt to have discussed the current political situation in the country with the Congress president.

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Jammu and Kashmir: Former PDP leader joins BJP, accuses Mehbooba Mufti of pursuing Pakistani agenda

India | Apr 05, 2022, 05:06 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir BJP chief Ravinder Raina and other prominent leaders including former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta and Devender Singh Rana, who left the National Conference last year.

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'Not about religion but choice', says Mehbooba Mufti, slams Karnataka HC's verdict on Hijab ban

India | Mar 15, 2022, 02:12 PM IST

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by a section of Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classroom.