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Mehbooba Mufti Sayed

Mufti in 2022

President of

Assumed office

January 2009

9th

In office

4 April 2016 – 19 June 2018

Governor

Preceded by

Succeeded by

In office

2014–2016

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Constituency

In office

16 May 2004 – 16 May 2009

Preceded by

Succeeded by

LoP in Jammu & Kashmir Assembly

Chief

Minister

Personal details

Born

22 May 1959

(age 66)

, India

Spouse

Javed Iqbal Shah

Children

, Irtiqa Mufti

Parent

(father)

Mehbooba Bur Mufti Sayed

(born 22 May 1959) is an Indian politician and

leader of the

(PDP), who served as

the 9th

of the erstwhile state

from 4 April

2016 to 19 June 2018. She is the first female chief minister of Jammu and

Kashmir. After the

in August

2019, Mufti was detained without any charges at first and later under the

Jammu and Kashmir

Mufti was the

to hold the office of chief minister in the Jammu

and Kashmir.

She formed a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir jointly

with the

(BJP). She resigned in June 2018 after the BJP

withdrew from the coalition.

Mufti was the president of the PDP and was a member of the Indian parliament,

representing

in the

before she was sworn in as the

chief minister of the Jammu and Kashmir. She also represented Anantnag in the

(2004–09)

and has also been a Leader of Opposition in Jammu

and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.

Early life

[

]

She is the daughter of

and Gulshan Ara,

born in 1959

Nowpora, J&K, India. She graduated in English literature from

Government College for Women in Jammu,

and has a law degree from the

Post 1989, she shifted to N. Delhi and joined the

Bombay Mercantile Bank, after which she worked with East West Airlines, before

moving back to J&K.

Mehbooba Mufti married Javed Iqbal Shah in 1984, but

they later divorced. Her Ex Husband is the first cousin of her father,

. This means that, before their marriage, Mehbooba Mufti was

Javed Iqbal Shah's niece in relation. She has two daughters, Iltija and Irtiqa.

Her ex-husband is a political analyst, an animal-rights activist, and was

briefly with National Conference party.

Political career

[

]

When elections for the state assembly were held in 1996, Mehbooba became one

of the most popular members elected from

on an

ticket.

Her father had returned to the Congress, which he had

left in 1987, angry at the alliance that party had formed with its traditional

rival in the state, the

She later served as the

in the assembly, taking on the government of chief minister

with asperity.

She resigned her assembly seat and went on to contest the parliamentary

elections in 1999 from

, where she lost to incumbent member

. She won the

seat in the state assembly from South Kashmir,

defeating

, when assembly elections were held again in 2002. She

was elected to the

from

seat in 2004 and 2014.

She

defeated

who was the incumbent MP in 2014 Lok Sabha

Elections.

After her father's death in January 2016, when he was heading the coalition

government in Jammu and Kashmir, she took forward the same alliance with

(BJP), the second time the BJP and the PDP formed a

government in Jammu and Kashmir.

On 4 April 2016, she took the oath

and became the first woman

On 25 June 2016, she won an Assembly seat in a by-election in Anantnag with

the highest margin in any recent elections there and thereafter focussed on

settling of Rohingyas.

On 19 June 2018, she resigned as chief minister of Kashmir.

Her government had been an alliance between the

and the BJP, but there was a rift in the alliance in February 2018, when two BJP

ministers expressed public support for a man who was alleged to have

The BJP's National General Secretary,

, announced the end of the alliance between the BJP and

the PDP,

and said that it was because of the deteriorating security situation.

Mehbooba and the state

government had tried suspending security operations for Ramadan, but the militants had not reciprocated,

and 30

people were killed during the ceasefire.

So the BJP withdrew from the alliance with the PDP so that the Indian

government could get tough with the militants.

When the alliance between the PDP and the BJP ended, Mehbooba

resigned as chief minister.

Mehbooba said "the muscular policy will not work in Kashmir".

She contested 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Anantnag seat but lost it to

of National Conference,

and later also lost the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Anantanag - Rajouri seat to

of National

Conference

with 2.3 lakh votes.

Detention

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]

On 5 August 2019, she was detained by the Central government.

Her daughter Iltija Mufti took over her mother's

Twitter account on the 46th day of detention.

In November, Iltija Mufti wrote a letter to the

Deputy

Commissioner to shift her mother to a place better equipped for the valley's winter.

In February 2020 she was further detained under the Jammu and Kashmir

She was released on 13

October 2020.

On 25 November 2020, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and People's Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti was

detained by

and was not allowed to visit South Kashmir's

to meet the family of senior

PDP leader

, who was arrested by the National Investigating Agency earlier that week.

[

]

Mufti said that her daughter Iltija Mufti has also been placed under house arrest.