17 Facts About Mehbooba Mufti

Mehbooba Mufti was born on 22 May 1959 and is an Indian politician of the PDP, who served as the 9th and last Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 4 April 2016 to 19 June 2018.

Mehbooba Mufti was released only in October 2020, after the Supreme Court of India quizzed the government about the length of her detention.

Mehbooba Mufti formed a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir jointly with the Bharatiya Janta Party.

Mehbooba Mufti resigned in June 2018 after the BJP withdrew from the coalition.

Mehbooba Mufti represented Anantnag in the 14th Lok Sabha.

Mehbooba Mufti graduated in English literature from Government College for Women in Jammu, and has a law degree from the University of Kashmir.

Mehbooba Mufti's ex-husband is a political analyst, an animal-rights activist, and was briefly with National Conference party.

When elections for the state assembly were held in 1996, Mehbooba Mufti became one of the most popular members elected from Bijbehara on an Indian National Congress ticket.

Mehbooba Mufti's 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 Mufti later served as the leader of the opposition in the assembly, taking on the government of chief minister Farooq Abdullah with asperity.

Mehbooba Mufti resigned her assembly seat and went on to contest the parliamentary elections in 1999 from Srinagar, where she lost to incumbent member Omar Abdullah.

Mehbooba Mufti won the Pahalgam seat in the state assembly from South Kashmir, defeating Rafi Ahmed Mir, when assembly elections were held again in 2002.

Mehbooba Mufti was elected to the Lok Sabha from Anantnag seat in 2004 and 2014.

Mehbooba Mufti defeated Mirza Mehboob Beg who was the incumbent MP in 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

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

Mehbooba Mufti again contested 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Anantnag seat but lost it to Hasnain Masoodi of National Conference.

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