List of Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir

Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
Incumbent
Mehbooba Mufti
since 4 April 2016
Appointer Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
Inaugural holder Mehr Chand Mahajan (as Prime Minister)
Formation 15 October 1947

The Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir is the chief executive of the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Before 30 March 1965, when an amendment to the state's constitution came into effect, the office was known as Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (Wazir-e-Azam).[1] Subsequently the ruling prime minister, Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq, was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

Mehbooba Mufti of the Peoples Democratic Party is the current Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, serving since April 2016. She is the state's first woman chief minister.

Colour key for parties

  Awami National Conference
  National Conference
  N/A (Governor's rule)

Prime Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir

Farooq Abdullah was the second member of his family, after father Sheikh Abdullah, to serve three stints as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
Following his tenure as chief minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad served in the Union cabinet as health minister.
Omar Abdullah, son of Farooq, is the third generation of chief ministers from the Abdullah family.
A few months after Mufti Mohammad Sayeed died a year into his second term, his daughter Mehbooba Mufti succeeded him as chief minister.
No Name Term[2]
(tenure length)		 Party[lower-alpha 1]
1 Mehr Chand Mahajan 15 October 1947 – 5 March 1948
(142 days)
2 Sheikh Abdullah 5 March 1948 – 9 August 1953
(5 years, 157 days)		 National Conference
3 Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad 9 August 1953 – 12 October 1963
(10 years, 64 days)
4 Khwaja Shamsuddin 12 October 1963 – 29 February 1964
(140 days)
5 Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq 29 February 1964 – 30 March 1965
(1 year, 29 days)		 Indian National Congress

Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir

No[lower-alpha 2] Name Term[2]
(tenure length)		 Party[lower-alpha 1]
1 Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq 30 March 1965 – 12 December 1971
(6 years, 257 days)		 Indian National Congress
2 Syed Mir Qasim 12 December 1971 – 25 February 1975
(3 years, 75 days
3 Sheikh Abdullah 25 February 1975 – 26 March 1977
(2 years, 29 days)		 National Conference
– Vacant
(Governor's rule)		 26 March – 9 July 1977
(105 days)		 N/A
(3) Sheikh Abdullah [2] 9 July 1977 – 8 September 1982
(5 years, 61 days)		 National Conference
4 Farooq Abdullah 8 September 1982 – 2 July 1984
(1 year, 298 days)
5 Ghulam Mohammad Shah 2 July 1984 – 6 March 1986
(1 year, 247 days)		 Awami National Conference
– Vacant
(Governor's rule)		 6 March – 7 November 1986
(246 days)		 N/A
(4) Farooq Abdullah [2] 7 November 1986 – 19 January 1990
(3 years, 73 days)		 National Conference
– Vacant
(Governor's rule)		 19 January 1990 – 9 October 1996
(6 years, 264 days)		 N/A
(4) Farooq Abdullah [3] 9 October 1996 – 18 October 2002
(6 years, 9 days)		 National Conference
– Vacant
(Governor's rule)		 18 October – 2 November 2002
(15 days)		 N/A
6 Mufti Mohammad Sayeed 2 November 2002 – 2 November 2005
(3 years, 0 days)		 People's Democratic Party
7 Ghulam Nabi Azad 2 November 2005 – 11 July 2008
(2 years, 252 days)		 Indian National Congress
– Vacant
(Governor's rule)		 11 July 2008 – 5 January 2009
(178 days)		 N/A
8 Omar Abdullah 5 January 2009 – 8 January 2015
(6 years, 3 days)		 National Conference
– Vacant[3]
(Governor's rule)		 8 January 2015 – 1 March 2015
(52 days)		 N/A
(6) Mufti Mohammad Sayeed [2] 1 March 2015 – 7 January 2016
(312 days)		 People's Democratic Party
– Vacant
(Governor's rule		 7 January 2016 – 4 April 2016
(88 days)		 N/A
9 Mehbooba Mufti 4 April 2016
(19 days)		 People's Democratic Party

Also See

Notes

Footnotes
  1. 1 2 This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he headed may have been a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
  2. ↑ A number inside brackets indicates that the incumbent has previously held office.

References

  1. ↑ "From 1965 to 2009, Omar Abdullah is the eighth chief minister." Hindustan Times. 5 January 2009. Accessed 23 May 2010.
  2. 1 2 Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir since 1947. General Administration Department, Government of Jammu and Kashmir. Retrieved on 29 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Bharti Jain. "Governor's rule imposed in Jammu & Kashmir". The Times of India. 9 January 2015.
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