19 Facts About Mehbooba Mufti

Mehbooba Mufti was the first female chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

Mehbooba Mufti is the first woman to hold the office of chief minister in the Jammu and Kashmir.

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

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

Mehbooba Mufti was 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 the Jammu and Kashmir.

Mehbooba Mufti represented Anantnag in the 14th Lok Sabha and has been a Leader of Opposition in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.

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 contested 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Anantnag seat but lost it to Hasnain Masoodi of National Conference, and later lost the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Anantanag - Rajouri seat to Mian Altaf Ahmed Larvi of National Conference [1] with 2.3 lakh votes.

On 25 November 2020, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and People's Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti was detained by Jammu and Kashmir Police and was not allowed to visit South Kashmir's Pulwama to meet the family of senior PDP leader Waheed Para, who was arrested by the National Investigating Agency earlier that week.

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