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 MoreSrinagar: After Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah decided not to contest from Ganderbal assembly seat, Opposition PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, while taking a dig, said the move has already “announced the result of
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti has appealed to the people of the Chenab valley not to waste their votes by casting them in favour the National Conference which, she claimed,
Jammu: Stating that the ruling National Conference and Congress were likely to face its worst ever defeat in the upcoming elections, PDP today hoped for a clear mandate for the party saying it will make
R S Pura: Charging the NC-Congress coalition government with having “brazenly plundered” the state exchequer, PDP today alleged that it was all due to the “misdeeds” of both the parties that the Jammu and Kashmir
Ramban : Claiming that it was a direct fight between PDP and BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday hit out at the saffron outfit and said it was using "negative
Jammu: Alleging that the BJP won the three Lok Sabha seats recently in Jammu and Kashmir by promoting communal polarisation, the PDP today said it is now planning to trigger “sectarian divide” among Muslims in
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today nominated his political opponent and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and Nobel Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi among nine people to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ‘Swachh Bharat
New Delhi: PDP, the opposition party of Jammu and Kashmir, today requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take personal interest in ensuring that the lives of people of the flood-hit state are rebuilt expeditiously and
New Delhi: PDP, the opposition party of Jammu and Kashmir, today requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take personal interest in ensuring that the lives of people of the flood-hit state are rebuilt expeditiously and
New Delhi: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti today sought financial help from the Centre to rebuild health sector in Jammu and Kashmir besides a medicine bank and AIIMS-like institutes.In the Consultative Committee of Parliament for the
Jammu: People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti yesterday said there was no indication that the Narendra Modi Government is serious about its election promise of resolving the problems of Jammu and Kashmir.Addressing a function held
Jammu: Asking India and Pakistan to try peace instead of hostility, chief of opposition PDP Mehbooba Mufti today appealed the Centre to resume the dialogue process with the neighbouring country.“India and Pakistan must try peace
New Delhi: Mehbooba Mufti, leader of Peoples Democratic Party of Jammu & Kashmir has appealed to all state governments, people, NGOs, Industrialists, National Disaster Management Agencies and other crisis related agencies to come foward for
Jammu: Mehbooba Mufti, president of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir,on Friday appealed the central government to start defence minister level talks with Pakistan.Addressing a media conference here, Mufti said: "The
New Delhi: Uproar was witnessed today in the Lok Sabha as several parties got together to demand a resolution to condemn Israeli raids in Gaza Strip but the government did not oblige.Members of Congress, Trinamool
New Delhi: The PDP will contest the forthcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections on its own, says party chief Mehbooba Mufti, while stressing the need of an improved "ground situation", implementing suggestions for "self-rule" and
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party today voiced grave concern over killing of "innocent" people, including children, in Gaza following attacks by Israel and staged a walkout in Lok Sabha.As soon as the
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today accused the Centre of “brazenly discriminating” against Kashmir by allotting IIT only to the Jammu region, and alleged that PDP was hand in gloves with the
New Delhi: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti today met Union Food and Civil Supplies minister Ram Vilas Paswan here and asked him to help Jammu and Kashmir tide over the shortage of ration.
Srinagar: Opposition PDP chief and Anantnag MP Mehbooba Mufti today condemned the statement of Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh, saying it has the potential to divide Jammu and Kashmir on
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