Mohammad Sayeed

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Mufti Mohammad Sayeed ( Kashmiri : مفتی محمد سید / मुफ़्ती मुहम्मद सईद; * January 12, 1936 in Bijbehara ; † January 7, 2016 in New Delhi ) was an Indian politician and since March 1, 2015 Chief Minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir .

Career

Mohammed Sayeed was born in 1936 in what was then the princely state of Kashmir in British India . He attended SP College in Srinagar and then studied law and Arabic history at Aligarh Muslim University . He then worked as a lawyer in Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir. In the late 1950s he became politically active and joined the Democratic National Conference , a small left-wing political splinter group founded by Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq in 1957. He later moved to the Congress Party and became leader of the Congress Party faction in the Legislative Council, the House of Lords, Jammu and Kashmir. In 1971 he became a minister in the Congress Party-led government of Jammu and Kashmir. The following elections in Jammu and Kashmir were won by the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (JKNC). Sayeed played a key role in the overthrow of the Kashmiri government under Farooq Abdullah (JKNC) in 1984 by Indira Gandhi . In 1986 Sayeed was appointed Indian Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi . After the settlement between Rajiv Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah, which resulted in an electoral alliance between the Congress Party and the JKNC, and the subsequent elections in Jammu and Kashmir in 1987, which raised allegations of massive election fraud, Sayeed resigned from the ministerial office and joined the 1987 Jan Morcha founded by VP Singh , which in turn merged into the newly founded Janata Dal in 1988 . The Indian parliamentary election in 1989 was won by the Janata Dal and Sayeed served as Indian Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of VP Singh from November 1989 to December 1990 . He was the first Muslim to hold this important cabinet post since independence. Five days after taking office as minister, his daughter Rubaiya was kidnapped by extremists on December 8, 1989 in Kashmir. On December 13, 1989, Rubaiya Sayeed was released unharmed in exchange for the release of five imprisoned Kashmiri terrorists.

After the fall of the VP Singh government, Sayeed rejoined the Congress Party under Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao (from 1991). After Sonia Gandhi took over the leadership of the Congress Party in 1998, Mohammed Sayeed and his daughter Mehbooba, who was also an active member of the Congress Party as a member of parliament, did not feel that they were being taken seriously by the Congress party's leadership. They then both declared their resignation from the Congress party in 1999 and Sayeed founded a new party on July 28, 1999 called the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (JKPDP). To justify the re-establishment, it was said that the peace process in Jammu and Kashmir must be intensified and an unconditional dialogue with the separatists must be started. The Kashmiris should be offered a real alternative to the dominant JKNC.

After the parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir in 2002, Mohammed Sayeed served as Chief Minister from 2002 to 2005 with a coalition of the JKPDP and the Congress Party. During his tenure as Chief Minister he survived several bomb attacks by Kashmiri terrorists against him. The 2008 general election was won by the JKNC and Omar Abdullah became Chief Minister. In the following general election in 2015, the JKNC lost a lot and the JKPDP became the strongest party, but numerically, the JKPDP and Congress Party did not have a majority in parliament. After lengthy negotiations, a coalition government consisting of the JKPDP and the BJP was formed - a constellation that had been declared impossible before the election. The BJP had conducted its election campaign with the slogan that the Kashmiris had to free themselves from baap-beta (father-son) and baap-beti (father-daughter) - alluding to the duo Farooq Abdullah - Omar Abdullah (JKNC) and the Duo Mohammad Sayeed - Mehbooba Mufti (JKPDP). In addition, the Hindu BJP traditionally strives to abolish the special status of Jammu and Kashmir within India, while the Muslim JKPDP is more anxious to expand this even further. Despite the ideological differences, the two unequal partners came together and on March 1, 2015, 79-year-old Mohammad Sayeed was elected Chief Minister of a coalition government made up of the BJP and JKPDP.

On December 24, 2015, Sayeed, aged 79, was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in New Delhi on suspicion of pneumonia and sepsis . He died on January 7, 2016 in the intensive care unit there.

Web links

Commons : Mohammad Sayeed  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Chief Patron , official biography on the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, dies. The Times of India, January 7, 2016, accessed January 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Nazir Masoodi / Dilip Bobb: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed: A Tough Run Ahead for Kashmir's Old Warhorse. NDTV, March 1, 2015, accessed on March 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Chindu Sreedharan: The Rediff Interview / Mufti Mohammad Sayeed: 'Elections in J&K have not been fair since 1987'. rediff.com , September 18, 1999, accessed March 11, 2015 .
  4. ^ Profiles: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. BBC News, October 29, 2002, accessed March 11, 2015 .
  5. ↑ BJP pays glowing tributes to Sayeed. The Hindu, January 7, 2016, accessed April 24, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Sayeed, Mohammad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Bijbehara , Jammu and Kashmir
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2016
Place of death New Delhi