Chair of the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 October 2020
Vice-chair
Mehbooba Mufti
Preceded by
Position established
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 April 2017
Preceded by
Tariq Hameed Karra
Constituency
Srinagar
In office 13 May 2009 – 12 May 2014
Preceded by
Omar Abdullah
Succeeded by
Tariq Hameed Karra
Constituency
Srinagar
In office 6 January 1980 – 5 January 1983
Preceded by
Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah
Succeeded by
Abdul Rashid Kabuli
Constituency
Srinagar
4th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
In office 9 October 1996 – 18 October 2002
Governor
K. V. Krishna Rao Girish Chandra Saxena
Preceded by
President's Rule
Succeeded by
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
In office 7 November 1986 – 18 January 1990
Governor
Jagmohan Malhotra K. V. Krishna Rao
Preceded by
Governor's Rule
Succeeded by
Governor's Rule
In office 8 September 1982 – 2 July 1984
Governor
Braj Kumar Nehru Jagmohan Malhotra
Preceded by
Sheikh Abdullah
Succeeded by
Ghulam Mohammad Shah
Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India
In office 28 May 2009 – 26 May 2014
President
Pratibha Patil Pranab Mukherjee
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Preceded by
Vilas Muttemwar
Succeeded by
Piyush Goyal
President Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
In office 1981 - 2002
Preceded by
Sheikh Abdullah
Succeeded by
Omar Abdullah
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
Chairperson
Omar Abdullah
Preceded by
Omar Abdullah
Personal details
Born
(1937-10-21) 21 October 1937 (age 86) Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India
Political party
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
Spouse
Mollie Abdullah[1]
Relations
Omer abdullah son, Sara Pilot daughters and other 2 daughters,
Children
Omar
Safia
Hinna
Sara
Residence(s)
Gupkar Road Srinagar, Kashmir
Alma mater
Tyndale Biscoe School
Farooq Abdullah (born 21 October 1937) is an Indian politician and current President of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. He has served as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions since 1982, and as the union minister for New and Renewable Energy between 2009 and 2014. He is the son of the 1st elected Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah, and father of former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah.
Farooq Abdullah stands between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President of India Pranab Mukherjee with Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari on far left at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India in 2013.
FarooqAbdullah (born 21 October 1937) is an Indian politician and current President of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. He has served as the Chief...
Omar Abdullah was born on 10 March 1970 in Rochford, Essex, United Kingdom. He is a grandson of Sheikh Abdullah, and the only son of FarooqAbdullah, a...
politician FarooqAbdullah (born 1937), Indian politician Farooq Kathwari, United States businessman Farooq Kperogi, Nigerian academic Farooq Leghari (1940–2010)...
March 1986. He succeeded his brother-in-law FarooqAbdullah. Shah's father-in-law was Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir National...
in 1977. Jehan Abdullah died on 11 July 2000 in Srinagar at the age of 84. She is the mother of the Kashmiri politician FarooqAbdullah, who succeeded...
will win 3 LS seats in Kashmir for INDIA bloc, alliance will grow: FarooqAbdullah". The Indian Express. 9 March 2024. Retrieved 17 April 2024. "Our party...
she began her career in acting.[citation needed] Singer Abdullah Qureshi is her cousin. Farooq began her career in 2012 in theatre playing the leading...
had stood in fierce opposition to FarooqAbdullah, and his father Sheik Abdullah for nearly four decades. Abdullah had been detained under house arrest...
The Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly (1935), p. 144–147. Hussain, Sheikh Abdullah - A Biography (2016), p. 245, 247. Livemint (30 December 2014). "Battleground...
Sheikh Abdullah, the brother of former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir FarooqAbdullah and the uncle of the former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. "Dr...
opposition in the assembly, taking on the government of chief minister FarooqAbdullah with asperity. She resigned her assembly seat and went on to contest...
Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party candidate by defeating Dr. FarooqAbdullah of National Conference by more than 40000 votes, and thereby handing...
the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir were held on 23 March 1987. FarooqAbdullah was reappointed as the Chief Minister. The election is widely perceived...
N/A (3) Sheikh Abdullah Ganderbal 9 July 1977 8 September 1982 5 years, 61 days 6th (1977 election) National Conference 4 FarooqAbdullah Ganderbal 8 September...
commonly known as Roshni Act was promulgated during Chief Minister FarooqAbdullah's government in 2001. The law granted ownership of Jammu and Kashmir...
Valley: FarooqAbdullah". NDTV News. Dutt, Barkha (19 January 2016). "Onus on Kashmiri Pandits To Return, No One Will Beg Them: FarooqAbdullah". NDTV...
notices till 21 July 2020. Pilot married Sara Abdullah on 15 January 2004. She is the daughter of FarooqAbdullah, president of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference...
Sule TDP 2 K Ram Mohan Naidu IUML 3 E. T. Mohammed Basheer JKNC 3 FarooqAbdullah CPI(M) 3 P R Natarajan SP 3 S. T. Hasan CPI 2 K. Subbarayan AD(S) 2...
Minister and the government to pass on the news. The chief minister FarooqAbdullah cut short his holiday in London and returned to Delhi. Senior IB and...
and Gardens, Science & Technology and Transport & Information in FarooqAbdullah's government from 1996 to 2002. He was also Member of Legislative Assembly...
He was media advisor to two Chief Ministers: FarooqAbdullah (in 1983 and 1990–2002) and Omar Abdullah (2010). Nazki had multiple health issues prior...
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