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Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party
Introduction
Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party belongs to the state of Jammu and Kashmir and is one of the state’s political parties.
Among the various parties in the state of Jammu & Kashmir, which are having an active role in the scenario of politics in the state, the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party has played a prominent role. The party came into force in 1999. One of the members involved in the establishment of this party was Mr. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who was also the Union Home Minister of the country.
History
The party was established in 1999Â under the leadership of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who was the Union Home Minister previously and in assembly elections in 2002, went on to gain power in the state. Since the year 2004, it has the credit of having one member from the party, in both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. Since the elections in 2009, the party was in alliance with the UPA government.
At present, the People’s Democratic Party is having Ms Mehbooba Mufti as its head, and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is the head of Congress-PDP government starting from 2002 October to 2005 november, and he is also the patron of the party.
In the year 2004, the party had its biggest achievement, when the elections for the state assembly were won by it and the government in the state was formed by the party. The chief minister was Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and remained in the position till 2005. During this period, it was able to get one member, in both lower and upper houses of parliament. During the assembly elections which the party won, it was in alliance with the UPA government. PDP’s present day president is Mrs. Mehbooba Mufti.
Famous Members of the Party
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was born in 1936 on 12th January, and has become a prominent figure in the state politics. He had been the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister starting in 2002 on 2nd November till 2005, 2nd November. It was in July 1999, that he founded the People’s Democratic Party of Jammu and Kashmir, with the aim to demand from the central government, a dialogue without any conditions so that the Kashmir problem could be solved.
Mufti Sayeed has remained till 1987, a member belonging to Indian National Congress. He brought down the government in Jammu and Kashmir by the National Conference, when Farooq Abdullah was the chief minister during the year 1984. He left congress in 1987 and went along wth V.P. Singh in this party Jan Morcha, and this led to the declaration of Sayeed as the minister of State for Home affairs in the year 1989.
In 1999, he again left the congress party, after joining under PV Narsimha Rao, accompanied by his daughter Mehbooba Mufti and went on to form a party of his own, namely the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic party.
Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed
Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed was born in 1959 on 22nd May, in the Anantnag district of J & K in Akhran Nowpora region. Presently, she holds the post of party president of PDP. Her father is the previous chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and mother is Gulshan Nazir. In the Lok Sabha of 14th term, she was a member, from the constituency of Anantnag.
After graduating from University of Kashmir, with a degree in law, she was not active in politics as she was busy raising her two daughters, named Irtiqa and Iltija, at around the 1980s. later on, she parted with her husband, who also pursued a career in politics, many times pitting against her in many elections.
During the assembly elections of the state in 1996, Mehbooba was among the high popular contestants, and got elected from seat of Bijbehara on a ticket from Indian National Congress. It was during the time when her father had again joined congress, which he had on previous occasion in 1987 left, as he was dissatisfied due to the congress going into an alliance in J & K, with the opposition, the National Conference. Quickly enough, Mehbooba established herself as the opposition leader in the assembly, and took on Farooq Abdullah, the then chief minister, with harsh steps.
Mehbooba got well established as a women leader in Kashmir, with all India recognition. She had a very high profile in public and as a result, with the split of Mufti from INC, when he formed the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party in 1999, it was a general perception that Mehbooba would be posted as the president of the party. But giving way to the experience of her father, she accepted the vice presidency. Then she gave resignation from the assembly and contested the elections for parliament in the year 1999 from the constituency of Srinagar, which she lost and Omar Abdullah won from there. But in 2002, during the state elections for the assembly, she took the Pahalgam seat located in South Kashmir, and defeated Rafi Ahmed Mir. In 2004, she got through the Lok Sabha elections and played a prominent role in the coalition of the congress led union government. She has been sometimes said to have stirred anti-India feelings in Kashmir.