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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
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|caption = Mirza Afzal Beg<br />
|office1 = [[Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]] <br />
|term1 = 1974-1977<br />
|office2 = [[Revenue]] [[Minister (government)|Minister]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|J&K]]<br />
|term2 = 1948-1953<br />
|office3 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] [[Anantnag]]<br />
|term3 = 1948-1953<br />
|office4 = Member of [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]]<br />
|term5 = 1974-1977 <br />
|constituency5 = [[Anantnag (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]]<br />
|term6 = 1977-1982<br />
|constituency6 = [[Anantnag (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]]<br />
|office7 = [[President (corporate title)|President]] and [[Organizational founder|Founder]] of [[All Jammu and Kashmir Plebiscite Front]]<br />
|term7 = 1955-1975<br />
|office8 = [[Cabinet Minister]] for Public Works (PWD) of Princely State of [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|J&K]]<br />
|term8 = 1942-1946<br />
|office9 = Member of [[Constituent Assembly of India]] and [[Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir]]<br />
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'''Mirza Mohammad Afzal Bég''' (1908 -1982) was a [[Kashmir]]i politician , First [[Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]] and lieutenant of the late [[Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]], [[Sheikh Abdullah]].<ref>http://zabarwantimes.com/fakhr-e-kashmir-mirza-mohammad-afzal-beg-remembered/</ref> He was also the [[president (corporate title)|president]] of the [[All Jammu and Kashmir Plebiscite Front]] and was arrested as one of the accused in [[Kashmir Conspiracy Case]]. In later years, he was Sheikh Abdullah's representative in talks with the Indian government in 1974, inking the [[1974 Indira-Sheikh accord]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kashmirtimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=18218|title=J&K on threshold of Socio Economic Transformation: Rather - Kashmir Times|website=www.kashmirtimes.in}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://kashmirreader.com/07042012-ND-a-closed-chapter-1149.aspx |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-02-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203071133/http://kashmirreader.com/07042012-ND-a-closed-chapter-1149.aspx |archivedate=2014-02-03 }}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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]].<ref name=ref1>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y40MAAAAYAAJ&q=Mirza+Mohammad+Afzal+Beg+%22aligarh%22|title=Personalities: A Comprehensive and Authentic Biographical Dictionary of Men who Matter in India [Northern India and Parliament]|date=1950|publisher=Arunam & Sheel|page=9|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
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He was part of the [[Constituent Assembly of India]] and [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]. <br />
In 1978, Beg was expelled from the [[Jammu & Kashmir National Conference|National Conference]] party by Sheikh Abdullah. Abdullah then groomed his own son [[Farooq Abdullah]] as his successor.<ref>{{citation |first=Rekha |last=Chowdhary |title=Jammu and Kashmir: Politics of Identity and Separatism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9-2oCgAAQBAJ |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-41405-6 |page=43}}</ref><br />
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== Death ==<br />
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.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}<br />
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