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== Detention ==
== Detention ==
On 5 August 2019, she was detained by the Central government.<ref name=":0" /> Her daughter Iltija Mufti took over her mother's Twitter account on the 46th day of detention.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/iltija-mufti-mehbooba-mufti-daughter-takes-over-her-twitter-account-2104565|title=Mehbooba Mufti's Daughter Takes Over Her Twitter Account|last=|first=|date=|website=NDTV|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-23}}</ref> In November, Iltija Mufti had written a letter to the [[Srinagar]] Deputy Commissioner to shift her mother to a place better equipped for the valley's winter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/shift-my-mother-place-equipped-winter-mehbooba-mufti-daughter-iltija-mufti-1615905-2019-11-05|title=Shift my mother to place equipped for winter: Mehbooba Mufti's daughter|last=Press Trust of India|first=|date=5 November 2019|website=India Today|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-24}}</ref>
On 5 August 2019, she was detained by the Central government.<ref name=":0" /> Her daughter Iltija Mufti took over her mother's Twitter account on the 46th day of detention.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/iltija-mufti-mehbooba-mufti-daughter-takes-over-her-twitter-account-2104565|title=Mehbooba Mufti's Daughter Takes Over Her Twitter Account|last=|first=|date=|website=NDTV|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-23}}</ref> In November, Iltija Mufti wrote a letter to the [[Srinagar]] Deputy Commissioner to shift her mother to a place better equipped for the valley's winter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/shift-my-mother-place-equipped-winter-mehbooba-mufti-daughter-iltija-mufti-1615905-2019-11-05|title=Shift my mother to place equipped for winter: Mehbooba Mufti's daughter|last=Press Trust of India|first=|date=5 November 2019|website=India Today|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-24}}</ref>


In February 2020 she was further detained under the Jammu and Kashmir [[Public Safety Act]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/some-words-used-in-mehbooba-mufti-dossier-were-avoidable-dilbagh-singh-2180817|title=Some Words Used In Mehbooba Mufti Dossier Were Avoidable: J&K Top Cop|last=IANS|first=|date=16 February 2020|website=NDTV|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-02-16}}</ref> She was released on 13 October 2020, after the Supreme Court of India quizzed the government about the length of her detention.<ref> https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mehbooba-mufti-released-from-detention-6723785/ </ref>
In February 2020 she was further detained under the Jammu and Kashmir [[Public Safety Act]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/some-words-used-in-mehbooba-mufti-dossier-were-avoidable-dilbagh-singh-2180817|title=Some Words Used In Mehbooba Mufti Dossier Were Avoidable: J&K Top Cop|last=IANS|first=|date=16 February 2020|website=NDTV|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-02-16}}</ref> She was released on 13 October 2020, after the Supreme Court of India quizzed the government about the length of her detention.<ref> https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mehbooba-mufti-released-from-detention-6723785/ </ref>

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Mehbooba Mufti
Mufti in 2016
9th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
4 April 2016 – 19 June 2018
Preceded byMufti Mohammad Sayeed
Succeeded byPresident's rule
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
2014–2018
Preceded byMirza Mehboob Beg
Succeeded byHasnain Masoodi
ConstituencyAnantnag
In office
16 May 2004 – 16 May 2009
Preceded byMirza Mehboob Beg
Succeeded byAli Muhammad Naik
President of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 2009
Personal details
Born (1959-05-22) 22 May 1959 (age 65)
Bijbehara, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Political partyJammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party
SpouseJaved Iqbal Shah [1]
ChildrenTwo Daughters
RelativesMufti Mohammad Sayeed (father)
Alma materUniversity of Kashmir

Mehbooba Mufti (born 22 May 1959) is an Indian politician of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who served as the last Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir as a State, from 4 April 2016 to 19 June 2018. After the revocation of the special status (autonomy) of the state in August 2019, Mufti was detsined without any charges at first and later under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act.[2] She was released only in October 2020, after the Supreme Court of India quizzed the government about the length of her detention.

Mufti was the first woman to hold the office of Chief Minister in the state.[3] She formed a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir jointly with the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). She resigned in June 2018 after the BJP withdrew from the coalition.[4]

Mufti 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 also represented Anantnag in the 14th Lok Sabha (2004–09).[5]

Early life

She is the daughter of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Gulshan Ara,[6] born in 1959 in Akhran Nowpora. She earned her law degree from the University of Kashmir.[7][8] Her ex-husband is a political analyst, an animal-rights activist, and was briefly with National Conference party.[1] She has two daughters, Iltija and Irtiqa. [9]

Political career

When elections for the state assembly were held in 1996, Mehbooba became one of the most popular members elected from Bijbehara on an Indian National Congress 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 National Conference. Mehbooba quickly made a mark as the leader of the opposition in the assembly, taking on the government of Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah with asperity.

She resigned her assembly seat and went on to contest the parliamentary elections in 1999 from Srinagar, where she lost to the sitting member Omar Abdullah. She won the Pahalgam seat in the state assembly from South Kashmir, defeating Rafi Ahmed Mir, when assembly elections were held again in 2002. She was elected to the Lok Sabha from Anantnag seat in 2004 and 2014.[citation needed]

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 Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the second time the BJP and the PDP formed a government in Jammu and Kashmir.[10][11][12] On 4 April 2016, she took the oath and became the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

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.[13]

She again contested 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Anantnag seat but lost it to Hasnain Masoodi of National Conference.[14].

Detention

On 5 August 2019, she was detained by the Central government.[2] Her daughter Iltija Mufti took over her mother's Twitter account on the 46th day of detention.[15] In November, Iltija Mufti wrote a letter to the Srinagar Deputy Commissioner to shift her mother to a place better equipped for the valley's winter.[16]

In February 2020 she was further detained under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act.[17] She was released on 13 October 2020, after the Supreme Court of India quizzed the government about the length of her detention.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Insider tears into Muftis and family party". Telegraph India. 2 March 2016.
  2. ^ a b Haq, Shuja-ul; Wani, Ashraf (15 November 2019). "After daughter's appeal, Mehbooba Mufti shifted to warmer location in Srinagar". India Today. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Mehbooba is J-K's first woman CM and India's 16th". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  4. ^ Masoodi, Nazir and Tikku, Aloke (19 June 2018). "Dumped By BJP, Mehbooba Mufti Says Muscular Policy Won't Work In Kashmir". ndtv.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Mufti, Mehbooba (1 March 2019). "Why is GoI so uncomfortable with Jamaat e Islami?..." Twitter. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  6. ^ Gulshan Ara hugs her daughter Mehbooba Mufti after the oath ceremony at Raj Bhawan in Jammu on Monday. -Excelsior/Rakesh – Jammu Kashmir Latest News | Tourism | Breaking News J&K. Dailyexcelsior.com. Retrieved on 28 August 2019.
  7. ^ Mehbooba Mufti(JKPDP):Constituency- ANANTNAG(JAMMU & KASHMIR) – Affidavit Information of Candidate:. Myneta.info. Retrieved on 28 August 2019.
  8. ^ Waldman, Amy (12 October 2002). "A new face signals political change in embattled Kashmir". The New York Times.
  9. ^ "Mehbooba Mufti: Profile, Husband and Family". ipious.blogspot.in.
  10. ^ Mehbooba Mufti sworn in as Jammu & Kashmir's first woman chief minister. Times of India (3 April 2016)
  11. ^ Mehbooba Mufti takes over Jammu & Kashmir reins. Indianexpress.com (4 April 2016). Retrieved on 2019-08-28.
  12. ^ Mehbooba Mufti To Take Oath As Chief Minister. Ndtv.com (31 March 2016). Retrieved on 2019-08-28.
  13. ^ Mehbooba Mufti wins Anantnag by elections by 12 thousand votes. Jagran.com (25 June 2016). Retrieved on 2019-08-28.
  14. ^ "Mehbooba Mufti - CNBCTV18". CNBCTV18. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  15. ^ "Mehbooba Mufti's Daughter Takes Over Her Twitter Account". NDTV. Retrieved 23 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ Press Trust of India (5 November 2019). "Shift my mother to place equipped for winter: Mehbooba Mufti's daughter". India Today. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  17. ^ IANS (16 February 2020). "Some Words Used In Mehbooba Mufti Dossier Were Avoidable: J&K Top Cop". NDTV. Retrieved 16 February 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mehbooba-mufti-released-from-detention-6723785/
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