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.
Read MoreMehbooba Mufti took a swipe at Manoj Sinha over his 'Tiranga' rally and said that former PM Nehru stood among Kashmiris with the national flag while the J-K LG carried out the rally surrounded by a posse of security personnel.
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Mehbooba Mufti slammed the BJP over the Maharashtra NCP split episode and said that it will only unify the Opposition.
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday urged CJI Chandrachud for an early hearing on the batch of petitions challenging the revocation of Article 370 from Constitution.
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday (June 24) said that Jammu and Kashmir, which she had once ruled before being bifurcated into two Union Territories, was a ‘laboratory’ for the BJP and alleged that the party would undertake 'Kashmirisation' of the whole country if comes back to power.
All the leaders who attended the meeting said, Narendra Modi is an autocrat, he has crushed democracy, all parties must unite to save the republic and Constitution.
After a prolonged legal battle in the Delhi High Court, the passport was delivered to Mehbooba Mufti.
The mela, a symbol of communal harmony, passed off peacefully as the administration had made elaborate arrangements, including security related, for the devotees.
Mehbooba Mufti remarks came a day after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) called for Yasin Malik, who was given a life sentence by a Delhi court in a terror funding case last year, to be executed.
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti bats for united Opposition led by Congress. She asserted Congress should not choke space of other regional parties.
"Maybe it's very foolish on my part but it's more of an emotional issue," said Mufti.
The BJP-led central government is misusing the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the opposition leaders to put them in jails, she said.
If militancy is over, then who killed him (Kashmiri Pandit)? What is the government doing? I appeal govt to give job to the deceased's wife, said PDP chief Manish Sisodia.
During the conference, Mufti raises grave questions about the appointment of lieutenant governor and other top positions in the valley and asserted the Centre of making BJP Rashtra.
Mufti also upheld her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's decision to join hands with the saffron brigade to form the government in the valley during the 2014 Assembly polls.
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