President and Founder of All Jammu and Kashmir Plebiscite Front
In office 1955–1975
Cabinet Minister for Public Works (PWD) of Princely State of J&K
In office 1942–1946
President, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference
In office 1975-1977
Member of Constituent Assembly of India and Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir
Mirza Afzal Beg widely known as Fakhr-e-Kashmir (Pride of Kashmir) (1908–1982) was a Kashmiri politician and the founding member of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. He was the first Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. He was member of the Constituent Assembly of India. He served as a minister in the pre-independence period in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, and as the revenue minister in the post-independence government headed by Sheikh Abdullah. In this post he led the land reforms in Jammu and Kashmir, recognised as the most successful land reforms in India.
After the dismissal of Sheikh Abdullah government in 1953, Beg was incarcerated along with Abdullah and charged in the Kashmir Conspiracy Case. Beg founded a new party called the Plebiscite Front, demanding that Kashmir's accession to India should be decided by a plebiscite. In 1974, he paved the way for Abdullah's rehabilitation by negotiating with the Indian government, leading to the 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord.[1][2]
Plebiscite Front was then transformed into the present day National Conference. In 1975 he became the President of All Jammu and Kashmir National Conference.
Beg served as the Deputy Chief Minister in the next government headed by Sheikh Abdullah.[3]
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