Political Personalities (Politics) of Jammu and Kashmir 1. Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad (1907–1972) :- Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad (1907–1972) was ...

Political Personalities (Politics) of Jammu and Kashmir

1. Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad (1907–1972) :- Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad (1907–1972) was an Indian politician belonging to the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, who served as the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1953 to 1964. Bakshi was a member of the National Conference from its founding and rose to be the second in command to the principal leader Sheikh Abdullah. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir between 1947–1953, but disagreed with Abdullah’s advocacy of independence for the state in 1953. He staged a ‘coup’ with the help of the Head of State Karan Singh, resulting in the dismissal and imprisonment of Sheikh Abdullah. Bakshi was the longest serving Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, whose rule saw the formulation of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir and a normalisation of relations between Jammu and Kashmir and India.

 

2. Farooq Abdullah (born 21 October 1937):-Farooq Abdullah (born 21 October 1937) is a Kashmiri politician and chairman of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. He has served as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions since 1982, and as the union minister for New and Renewable Energy between 2009 and 2014. He is the father of former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah.

 

3. Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 7 March 1949) :-Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 7 March 1949) is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress and was the Minister of Health and Family Welfare. Presently, he serves as the Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha. He was the Parliamentary Affairs Minister of India in the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh until 27 October 2005, when he was appointed as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. He led the party successfully in the 2002 Assembly electionin Jammu and Kashmir.

 

4. Karan Singh (born 9 March 1931:-Karan Singh (born 9 March 1931) is an Indian politician, philanthropist and poet. He belongs to Dogra dynasty and son of Maharaja Hari Singh. He was a member of India’s Upper House of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha representing the National Capital Territory of Delhi. He is a senior member of the Indian National Congress Party who served successively as President (SadriRiyasat) and Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Singh is the son of the last ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh. In the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India promulgated in 1971, the Government of India, of which Karan Singh was a Union cabinet minister, abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (privy purses). During the conclusion of the Cold War, he was India’s ambassador to the USA. Singh received the Padma Vibhushan in 2005. He was proposed for candidacy in the July 2017 Indian presidential election by Bhim Singh.

 

 

5. Omar Abdullah (born 10 March 1970):-Omar Abdullah (born 10 March 1970) is an Indian politician and the scion of the Abdullah family, he became the 11th and the youngest Chief Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, after forming a government in coalition with the Congress party, on 5 January 2009. He was the last Leader of opposition in the erstwhile state Jammu & Kashmir legislative assembly (Member of the Legislative Assembly from Beerwah constituency of Budgam district.) before the assembly was dissolved and the state of Jammu & Kashmir ceased to exist as on 6th August 2019. He was a member of 14th Lok Sabha, representing Srinagar constituency of Jammu and Kashmir, India. He was the Union Minister of State for External affairs in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s NDA government, from 23 July 2001 to 23 December 2002. He resigned from NDA government in October 2002 to concentrate on party work. Omar joined politics in 1998, as a Lok Sabha member, a feat he repeated in subsequent three elections and also remained the Union minister; he took on the mantle of National Conference from his father in 2002, though he lost his own seat of Ganderbal during the 2002 state assembly elections, and so did his party, the political mandate; four years later, he contested once again from the same seat and won in the 2008 Kashmir State Elections.

 

 

6. Shamma Jain (born 1959) :-Shamma Jain (born 1959) is an Indian senior diplomat serving as the Indian Ambassador to Greece since June 2017. Previously, she was the Ambassador of India to Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. She has also served as India’s Ambassador to Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea from 2008 to 2011. She has also held other diplomatic assignments, including as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Rome, Italy, Political Counsellor in the U.S., and at the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO in Paris, France.

 

 

7.Mohammed Abdullah Sheikh (5 December 1905 – 8 September 1982):-Mohammed Abdullah Sheikh (5 December 1905 – 8 September 1982) was a Kashmiri politician who played a central role in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost Indian state. Referred by his supporters as “Sher-eKashmir” (Lion of Kashmir), Abdullah was the founding leader of the All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference and the 2nd Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir after its accession to India. He agitated against the rule of the Maharaja Hari Singh and urged self-rule for Kashmir. He served as the 2nd Prime Minister of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir after its accession to India in 1947 and was later jailed and exiled. He was dismissed from the position of Prime Ministership on 8 August 1953 and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad was appointed as the new Prime Minister. The expressions ‘Sadar-i-Riyasat’ and ‘Prime Minister’ were replaced with the terms ‘Governor’ and ‘Chief Minister’ in 1965. Sheikh Abdullah again became the Chief Minister of the state following the 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord and remained in the top slot till his death on 8 September 1982.

 

 

8. Mehbooba Mufti (born 22 May 1959) :-Mehbooba Mufti (born 22 May 1959) is an Indian politician of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who served as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 4 April 2016 to 19 June 2018. She formed a coalition government with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and resigned on 19 June 2018 after the BJP withdrew from the coalition. Mufti was the first and the last woman to hold the office of Chief Minister in the state. She is the president of the PDP and was a member of the Indian parliament, representing Anantnag in the 16th Lok Sabha; before she was sworn in as the Chief Minister of J&K. She had previously represented Anantnag in the 14th Lok Sabha (2004–09) but did not contest the 2009 election for the 15th Lok Sabha.

 

 

9. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (12 January 1936– 7 January 2016) :-Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (12 January 1936– 7 January 2016) was a politician from the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. He served twice as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, from November 2002 to November 2005 and again from March 2015 to January 2016. He was also Home Minister of India from December 1989 to November 1990 . He founded the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party in July 1999 to “persuade the Government of India to initiate an unconditional dialogue with Kashmiris for resolution of the Kashmir problem.”

 

10. Fairoz Khan (born 21 March 1989) :- Fairoz Khan (born 21 March 1989) is an Indian student leader and the former national president of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI). He was succeeded by Neeraj Kundan as the National President of NSUI.