Mehbooba Mufti

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Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed (born May 22, 1959 in Bijbehara , Anantnag District , Jammu and Kashmir , India ) is an Indian politician of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP). She was the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from April 4, 2016 to June 19, 2018, making her the first woman in this office in the northwestern state. It corresponds to the office of the Prime Minister in Germany. In parliamentary terms, she relied on a coalition of her party with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

biography

Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed is one of three daughters of the politician and lawyer Mohammad Sayeed . She grew up in Kashmir and studied at the University of Kashmir in Srinagar law . In 1984 she married Javed Iqbal and their marriage had two daughters, Iltija and Irtiqa. Her husband was her father's first cousin (son of her paternal uncle). The marriage was divorced after 4 years and the daughters grew up with her afterwards. Her ex-husband joined the competing Jammu & Kashmir National Conference in 2008 .

Mehbooba Mufti's father was politically active in the Congress Party until the end of the 1980s . In 1988/89 he joined the newly founded Janata Dal and became Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Prime Minister VP Singh - the first Muslim in the history of independent India to hold this post. In the 1990s he temporarily returned to the Congress Party. From around the mid-1990s, his daughter Mehbooba accompanied her father closely in his political activities. Mehbooba Mufti was also a member of the Congress Party in the 1990s and a member of the regional parliaments of Jammu and Kashmir from 1996. In 1999 both father and daughter resigned from the Congress party and founded their own regional party for Jammu and Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (JKPDP). The founding of the party was essentially justified with the neglect of specifically Kashmiri affairs by the Congress party. Mehbooba held important functions in the new party, most recently as party president.

In the all- Indian parliamentary elections in 2004 , Mebooba Mufti was successful in the constituency 3-Anantnag for the JKPDP and then the only JKPDP member in the Indian federal parliament, the Lok Sabha , in the following legislative period. She won the 35-Wachi constituency in the elections to parliament in Jammu and Kashmir . In the Indian general election in 2014 , she was again in the constituency three-Anantnag chosen .

When no party had achieved a majority after the 2014 elections to the parliament of Jammu and Kashmir, a coalition of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and JKPDP was formed. Mohammad Sayeed, 79, was elected Chief Minister. Already on November 13, 2015, Mohammad Sayeed indicated that his daughter could succeed him in the office of Chief Minister. His daughter is better connected to the problems of ordinary people and deserves to be chief minister. However, in December 2015, his daughter denied that she had any ambitions for this office.

On December 24, 2015, Mohammad Sayeed's health deteriorated massively and he died on January 7, 2016 in New Delhi . After his death, the JKPDP parliamentary group in Jammu and Kashmir proclaimed Mebooba Mufti as the designated successor to the office of Chief Minister. The co-ruling BJP had already declared on January 4, 2016 that it had no objection to Mehbooba Mufti taking office. After a 4 month central Governor's Rule in Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti was finally sworn in on April 4, 2016 as the new Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. On July 19, 2018, their coalition partner, the BJP, withdrew from the coalition and the state came back under the governor's administration as an alternative government majority could not be found.

literature

  • Cover story: Mehbooba Mufti under Siege. Can She Stem the Rot? In: India Today , May 15, 2017, pp. 30-38 by Asit Jolly. (A look back at her first and difficult year in government: Subtitle: Buffeted by Insurgency and Dissent within Her Party, She Needs All the Help she Can Get from a Reluctant Center.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Amy Waldman: A New Face Signals Political Change in Embattled Kashmir. The New York Times, October 12, 2002, accessed January 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Mehbooba's former husband joins NC. Greater Kashmir, December 4, 2008, accessed February 1, 2016 .
  3. ^ Party Structure. (No longer available online.) JKPDP, archived from the original on February 7, 2015 ; accessed on January 7, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jkpdp.org
  4. ↑ Mehbooba Mufti set to become Jammu and Kashmir CM? (No longer available online.) Tehelka.com, January 7, 2016, archived from the original on January 7, 2016 ; accessed on January 7, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tehelka.com
  5. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on January 7, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  6. ^ Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, dies. January 7, 2016, accessed January 7, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Not willing to become Jammu and Kashmir CM, says Mehbooba Mufti. The Economic Times, December 12, 2015, accessed January 7, 2016 .
  8. ↑ PDP writes to Governor, Mehbooba Mufti set to be first woman CM of Jammu & Kashmir. The Economic Times, January 7, 2016, accessed January 7, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Hakeem Irfan: No issues with Mehbooba Mufti As CM, says BJP. The Economic Times, January 4, 2016, accessed January 7, 2016 .
  10. ^ Mehbooba Mufti sworn in as J & K's first woman CM. The Hindu, April 4, 2016, accessed April 24, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Guv's afternoon call ends Mehbooba's rule. Greater Kashmir, June 20, 2018, accessed June 20, 2018 .
  12. ^ Governor rule in J&K. Greater Kashmir, June 20, 2018, accessed June 21, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Can she stem the rot? - Online version, indiatoday.intoday.in from May 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Mufti, Mehbooba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bijbehara , Jammu and Kashmir