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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Jammu and Kashmir Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 Highlights: The Udhampur-Doda parliamentary constituency saw a 68.27 percent voter turnout on April 19. The election will determine the fate of 12 candidates. Counting to the votes will begin at 8AM.
Voting in the Anantnag–Rajouri Lok Sabha seat began at 7 am along with 57 other constituencies in the country on Saturday. Mehbooba Mufti, who is a candidate on the seat, alleged that efforts are being made to tamper with the EVMs.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The sixth phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 will be held on May 25 (Saturday) in which voters in 58 constituencies will use their franchise. Eight states and Union Territories including UP, Haryana, Delhi, Bengal, Bihar and Odisha will go to polls in the sixth phase.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: PDP President and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is contesting Lok Sabha elections from Anantnag-Rajouri seat, which was carved out from parts of Anantnag-Pulwama and Jammu-Poonch-Rajouri Lok Sabha seats following delimitation exercise in 2022.
Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Lok Sabha polls in the Union Territory will be held in the first five phases on April 19 (Udhampur) and April 26 (Jammu), May 7 (Anantnag-Rajouri), May 13 (Srinagar) and May 20 (Baramulla). The counting of votes will be held on June 4.
Mehbooba Mufti's PDP is contesting the Lok Sabha Elections independently while Congress and National Conference are fighting in alliance with each other in Jammu and Kashmir.
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.
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 released the election manifesto of PDP and alleged that Jammu and Kashmir was converted to "open air prison".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mehbooba Mufti's name was proposed by senior Vice President Abdul Rehman Veeri and seconded by General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Hanjura.
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 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.
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.
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.
'Arguments going in SC has exposed BJP': Mehbooba Mufti on petitions against abrogation of Article 370
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