Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party

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Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party
AbbreviationJKPDP
President Mehbooba Mufti
Rajya Sabha  LeaderVacant
Founder Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
Founded1999
Headquarters2, Circuit House, Emporium Lane, Residency Road, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India [1]
Student wing Peoples Democratic Student Union [2]
Youth wing PDP Youth Wing
Ideology Kashmiriyat
Jammu and Kashmir statehood [3]
Islamic democracy [4]
Regionalism
Political position Centre-right
ECI StatusState Party [5]
Alliance
Seats in  Lok Sabha
0 / 543
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
0 / 245
Seats in  Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
3 / 90
Seats in  District Development Council
27 / 280
Election symbol
Indian Election Symbol Ink Pot and Pen.png
Website
jkpdp.in

The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a state political party in Jammu and Kashmir, India. [7] The PDP was headed and founded by Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. His daughter, Mehbooba Mufti, succeeded him as party leader and as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir following his death in January 2016. The party is a member of the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration electoral alliance. The party is also a member of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance since its founding on 18 June 2023. [8]

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Currently Mehbooba Mufti [9] remains as the president of the party, with Waheed Para serving as the Party leader in the J&K Assembly and Mehboob Beg as the Chief Spokesperson for the party. [10]

History

The PDP was founded in 1999 by the former Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. [11] [12] [13] It captured power in Jammu and Kashmir in October 2002 Assembly elections. In 2004, it had one member each in the Lok Sabha and in the Rajya Sabha. It was a member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance until the 2009 general election. [14]

Sayeed headed the PDP-Indian National Congress coalition government between October 2002 and November 2005, and he was the party's patron until his death on 7 January 2016. [15] The PDP is now headed by Mehbooba Mufti, Sayeed's daughter. [16]

The PDP operates on the ideology of self-rule, as distinctly different from the issues of autonomy. It believes that self-rule as a political philosophy, as opposed to autonomy, ensures the empowerment of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, while further engaging in debates over new political territoriality of the Jammu and Kashmir. [17]

In the 2014 general election, three of its members were elected to the Lok Sabha, and its strength in the Legislative Assembly was 28 and in the Rajya Sabha was two. [18] The party ran a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir with the Bharatiya Janata Party [6] until the BJP abandoned the coalition on June 19, 2018, due to concerns about terrorism and radicalization in Kashmir. [19]

The party won just 3 seats in the 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election. It was also its worst election performance in Jammu and Kashmir since its formation.

Election results

YearElectionSeats WonChange in Seat % of votesvotes swingRef.
1998 Indian general election 12th Lok Sabha 0
2002 Legislative Assembly election 8th Assembly16
2004 Indian general election 14th Lok Sabha 122.02Increase2.svg2 –
2008 Legislative Assembly election 9th Assembly215Increase2.svg5 –
2009 Indian general election 15th Lok Sabha 0Decrease2.svg 2 –
2014 Indian general election 16th Lok Sabha 3320.50 [20]
2014 Legislative Assembly election 10th Assembly 28522.7Increase2.svg 7 –
2020 District Development Council 1st Council 27273.9Increase2.svg 27 –
2024 Indian general election 18th Lok Sabha 008.48
2024 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election 3-258.87

List of ministers

Chief

NoNameImageConstituencyTerm of officeTenure lengthPartyGovernor
1 Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.jpg Pahalgam2 November 20022 November 20053 years, 0 daysPeople's Democratic Party Girish Chandra Saxena
2 Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.jpg Anantnag1 March 20157 January 2016312 daysPeople's Democratic Party N. N. Vohra
3 Mehbooba Mufti MehboobaMufti Ji.jpg Anantnag4 April 201620 June 20182 years, 77 daysPeople's Democratic Party N. N. Vohra

Deputy chief

NoNameConstituencyTerm of officeTenure length5,years
1 Muzaffar Hussain Baig Pahalgam 2 November 200611 July 20081 year, 252 days 10th

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