Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg

Mirza Mohammad Afzal Bég (1908 -1982) was a Kashmiri politician who served as the First Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and was the founder of All Jammu and Kashmir Plebiscite Front .He was a member of Constituent Assembly of India and Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir. He was arrested as one of the accused in the Kashmir Conspiracy Case after Abdullah's dismissal in 1953. Beg founded a new party called the Plebiscite Front, which eventually merged with the National Conference. In later years, he was Sheikh Abdullah's representative in talks with the Indian government in 1974, inking the 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord.[1][2]

Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg
Mirza Afzal Beg
Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
1974-1977
Revenue Minister
In office
1948-1953
Cabinet Minister
In office
1951-1953
Member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
In office
1974-1977
ConstituencyAnantnag (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
In office
1977-1982
ConstituencyAnantnag (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
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
Member of Constituent Assembly of India and Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir

Early life

Afzal Bég hailed from Anantnag and was the son of mirza Nizamudin Beg, brother of Mirza Ghulam Qadir Beg and nephew of the landlord, Mirza Ghulam Mohammad Bég, of Anantnag. He graduated from Sri Pratap College, Sri Nagar and studied law at Aligarh Muslim University.[3]

Career

He was part of the Constituent Assembly of India and Jammu and Kashmir. In 1978, Beg was expelled from the National Conference party by Sheikh Abdullah. Abdullah then groomed his own son Farooq Abdullah as his successor.[4]

Death

Mirza Afzal Beg died on 11 June 1982. He is survived by three sons and three daughters. His son Mirza Mehboob Beg is also a politician in the state.

References
  1. "J&K on threshold of Socio Economic Transformation: Rather - Kashmir Times". www.kashmirtimes.in.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Personalities: A Comprehensive and Authentic Biographical Dictionary of Men who Matter in India [Northern India and Parliament]. Arunam & Sheel. 1950. p. 9.
  4. Chowdhary, Rekha (2015), Jammu and Kashmir: Politics of Identity and Separatism, Routledge, p. 43, ISBN 978-1-317-41405-6
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