22-475: Mehbooba Mufti Sayed (Kashmiri: محبوبہ مفتی سید) (Urdu: محبوبہ مفتی سید ) (born 22 May 1959) is an Indian politician and leader of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP), who served as the 9th and last chief minister of the erstwhile state Jammu and Kashmir from 4 April 2016 to 19 June 2018. She was the first female chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. After the revocation of Article 370 of
44-574: A journalist for over 20 years with RSS sponsored publications and has authored more than twelve books. He serves as the Member of the Board of Governors of India Foundation, a New Delhi–based think-tank focused on the issues, challenges, and opportunities of the Indian polity. He is also a mentor at Vision India Foundation, a New Delhi–based think tank working on public leadership amongst youth He served as
66-571: A law degree from the University of Kashmir . Post 1989, she shifted to N. Delhi and joined the Bombay Mercantile Bank, after which she worked with East West Airlines, before moving back to J&K. Her ex-husband is a political analyst, an animal-rights activist, and was briefly with National Conference party. She has two daughters, Iltija and Irtiqa. When elections for the state assembly were held in 1996, Mehbooba became one of
88-743: Is a member of the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration electoral alliance. The party is also a member of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance since its founding on 18 June 2023. Currently Mehbooba Mufti remains as the president of the party, with Waheed Para serving as the Party leader in the J&;K Assembly and Mehboob Beg as the Chief Spokesperson for the party. The PDP
110-848: Is a member of the National Executive of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and has authored a few books. His latest is Uneasy Neighbours: India and China after Fifty Years of the War . Madhav was born in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on 22 August 1964. Primarily a student of engineering, he earned his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Andhra Pradesh. He also has a post-graduate degree in Political Science from
132-633: The 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election . It was also its worst election performance in Jammu and Kashmir since its formation. This article about an Indian political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ram Madhav Varanasi Ram Madhav (born 22 August 1964) is an Indian politician who served as the National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party . He
154-671: The Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) and the BJP, but there was a rift in the alliance in February 2018, when two BJP ministers expressed public support for a man who was alleged to have raped and killed an eight-year-old girl in Kathua District . The BJP's National General Secretary, Ram Madhav , announced the end of the alliance between the BJP and the PDP, and said that it was because of
176-478: The University of Mysore , Karnataka . Madhav's association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh began as a teenager. He volunteered to be a full-time worker for RSS in 1981. He was assigned to several key positions in the organization. He has also been the editor of Bharatiya Pragna , a monthly magazine in English published by Pragna Bharati, and associate editor of Jagriti , a Telugu weekly. He worked as
198-562: The 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Anantanag - Rajouri seat to Mian Altaf Ahmed Larvi of National Conference [1] with 2.3 lakh votes. On 5 August 2019, she was detained by the Central government. Her daughter Iltija Mufti took over her mother's Twitter account on the 46th day of detention. In November, Iltija Mufti wrote a letter to the Srinagar Deputy Commissioner to shift her mother to a place better equipped for
220-687: The Jammu and Kashmir. In the 2014 general election , three of its members were elected to the Lok Sabha, and its strength in the Legislative Assembly was 28 and in the Rajya Sabha was two. The party ran a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir with the Bharatiya Janata Party until the BJP abandoned the coalition on June 19, 2018, due to concerns about terrorism and radicalization in Kashmir. The party won just 3 seats in
242-517: The constitution in August 2019, Mufti was detained without any charges at first and later under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act . Mufti is the first woman to hold the office of chief minister in the Jammu and Kashmir. She formed a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir jointly with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She resigned in June 2018 after the BJP withdrew from the coalition. Mufti
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#1732801562122264-674: The deteriorating security situation. Mehbooba and the state government had tried suspending security operations for Ramadan, but the militants had not reciprocated, and 30 people were killed during the ceasefire. So the BJP withdrew from the alliance with the PDP so that the Indian government could get tough with the militants. When the alliance between the PDP and the BJP ended, Mehbooba resigned as chief minister. Mehbooba said "the muscular policy will not work in Kashmir". She contested 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Anantnag seat but lost it to Hasnain Masoodi of National Conference, and later also lost
286-596: The most popular members elected from Bijbehara on an Indian National Congress ticket. Her father had returned to the Congress, which he had left in 1987, angry at the alliance that party had formed with its traditional rival in the state, the National Conference . She later served as the leader of the opposition in the assembly, taking on the government of chief minister Farooq Abdullah with asperity. She resigned her assembly seat and went on to contest
308-643: The national spokesperson of the RSS from 2003 to 2014. Madhav was seconded to the BJP and appointed as one of its national general secretaries in 2014. As a General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he is credited for the rise of the party in North East India and building alliances with regional parties. He has called for India to take a more "proactive role in the region" in order to check China's One Belt One Road Initiative . He
330-630: The parliamentary elections in 1999 from Srinagar , where she lost to incumbent member Omar Abdullah . She won the Pahalgam seat in the state assembly from South Kashmir, defeating Rafi Ahmed Mir , when assembly elections were held again in 2002. She was elected to the Lok Sabha from Anantnag seat in 2004 and 2014. She defeated Mirza Mehboob Beg who was the incumbent MP in 2014 Lok Sabha Elections. After her father's death in January 2016, when he
352-417: The valley's winter. In February 2020 she was further detained under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act . She was released on 13 October 2020. On 25 November 2020, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and People's Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti was detained by Jammu and Kashmir Police and was not allowed to visit South Kashmir's Pulwama to meet the family of senior PDP leader Waheed Para , who
374-679: Was arrested by the National Investigating Agency earlier that week. Mufti said that her daughter Iltija Mufti has also been placed under house arrest. Jammu and Kashmir People%27s Democratic Party The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) is a state political party in Jammu and Kashmir , India . The PDP was headed and founded by Mufti Mohammed Sayeed . His daughter, Mehbooba Mufti , succeeded him as party leader and as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir following his death in January 2016. The party
396-649: Was founded in 1999 by the former Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed . It captured power in Jammu and Kashmir in October 2002 Assembly elections . In 2004, it had one member each in the Lok Sabha and in the Rajya Sabha . It was a member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance until the 2009 general election . Sayeed headed the PDP- Indian National Congress coalition government between October 2002 and November 2005, and he
418-647: Was heading the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir, she took forward the same alliance with Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the second time the BJP and the PDP formed a government in Jammu and Kashmir. On 4 April 2016, she took the oath and became the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir . On 25 June 2016, she won an Assembly seat in a by-election in Anantnag with the highest margin in any recent elections there and thereafter focussed on settling of Rohingyas. On 19 June 2018, she resigned as chief minister of Kashmir. Her government had been an alliance between
440-679: Was involved in the BJP's entry into the International Democrat Union , a worldwide grouping of right of centre political parties. On the talk show called Head to Head in Al Jazeera , a Qatari news channel, anchored by Mehdi Hasan on Hindu Nationalism , Ram Madhav's statement on 'your' ISIS to the British anchor with an explanation later published in Indian Express calling it just a slip of tongue After
462-432: Was the party's patron until his death on 7 January 2016. The PDP is now headed by Mehbooba Mufti , Sayeed's daughter. The PDP operates on the ideology of self-rule, as distinctly different from the issues of autonomy. It believes that self-rule as a political philosophy, as opposed to autonomy, ensures the empowerment of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, while further engaging in debates over new political territoriality of
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#1732801562122484-606: Was the president of the PDP and was a member of the Indian parliament, representing Anantnag in the 16th Lok Sabha before she was sworn in as the chief minister of the Jammu and Kashmir. She also represented Anantnag in the 14th Lok Sabha (2004–09) and has also been a Leader of Opposition in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. She is the daughter of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Gulshan Ara, born in 1959 in Akhran Nowpora, J&K, India. She graduated in English literature from Government College for Women in Jammu, and has
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