SRINAGAR: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, late CM of Jammu and Kashmir, who died early Thursday morning at AIIMS in New Delhi, missed his eightieth birthday by five days. He was 79.
Mufti was born in family of religious clerics at Baba Mohalla in South Kashmirs Bijbehara town on January 12, 1936. He completed his graduation from S P College Srinagar before obtaining a law degree and then Post Graduation in Arab History from Aligarh Muslim University.
Mufti was sworn-in as Chief Minister of J&K for second time on March Ist 2015 when his party, PDP, formed coalition government with the BJP.
Father of four, Muftis, affiliation to pro-India politics is as old as Kashmirs accession to India itself. Less known to people, Mufti has been a practicing lawyer as well.
Sayeed is survived by his wife Gulshan Ara and daughters Mehbooba Mufti, Mehmooda Sayeed, Rubaiyya Sayeed and son, Mufti Tasaduq Sayeed.
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