Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (born January 12, 1936) is the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir since November 2002. He is from the People's Democratic Party or the PDP, a Jammu and Kashmir regional party he launched in July 1999 to "persuade the Government of India to initiate an unconditional dialogue with Kashmiris for resolution of the Kashmir problem".
He has previously been a member of the Congress party. He is said to have brought about the downfall of the Farooq Abdullah led National Conference government of Jammu and Kashmir in 1984. In 1987, he quit the Congress to join V P Singh's Jan Morcha which led to his becoming the first Muslim Home Minister of India in 1989. His daughter Mehbooba Mufti was kidnapped by militants in that same year. She was released in exchange for the release of some militants.
He rejoined the Congress under P V Narasimha Rao which he left in 1999 to form his own party.
He has survived several attacks by militants on his lives over the years.
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