Muzaffar Hussain Baig

Muzaffar Hussain Baig
Muzaffar Hussain Baig
Member of the India Parliament
	In office; 1 September 2014 – 23 May 2019
Preceded by	Sharifuddin Shariq
Succeeded by	Mohammad Akbar Lone
Constituency	Baramulla
Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
	In office; 2 November 2005 – 11 July 2008
Preceded by	Mangat Ram Sharma
Succeeded by	Tara Chand
Constituency	Baramulla
Personal details
Born	8 May 1946 (age 77); Wahdina, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Political party	Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference (alleged)
Other political; affiliations	Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Safina Baig
Children	Daima ; Dalyah
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation	Advocate General, Politician
Awards	Padma Bhushan
	As of 20 June, 2021; Source: [1]

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Muzaffar Hussain Baig is an Indian politician. He was the Deputy Chief Minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. On Republic Day of 2020 he received India's third highest civilian honour Padma Bhushan.^[1]^[2]

Baig was the founding member of Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and was named as Patron of the party post-Mufti's death in 2016.

Awards[edit]

Padma Bhushan in 2020^[3]

Early life[edit]

He was born in Wahidna, a small hilly village in Baramulla district of the Kashmir valley. He received his master's degree from Harvard Law School.

Career[edit]

He started his political career in 1996 with the Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference where he held the position of Vice-Chairman. In 2002, he fought the Legislative Assembly election with the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party and won from Baramulla constituency. He was reelected in 2008.^{[citation needed]} He held the position of Law Minister and Parliamentary Affairs Minister in the state cabinet for the period 2002–2006. Until 2006 he was Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.^[4]

He served as Chief Spokesperson for the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party. He also worked in law firms in the United States and New Delhi in India. Baig served as Advocate General of the state of Jammu and Kashmir^[5] from 1987 to 1989.

Baig was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2014 from Baramulla.

In 2020, Baig was conferred the Padma Bhushan award, the third-highest civilian honor of India.^[5]

Due to differences between him and Mehbooba Mufti, that grew after the abrogation of Article 370, It was being allegedly said that Baig joined Sajjad Lone's Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference,^[6]^[7] Peoples Conference disowns senior leader Muzaffar Baig. Party general secretary Imran Ansari said Baig never joined JKPC.

References[edit]

↑ The Hindu Net Desk (26 January 2020). "Ex-PDP patron Muzaffar Hussain Baig join's Sajad's People Conference". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
↑ The Hindu Net Desk (26 January 2020). "Full list of 2020 Padma awardees". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
↑ "Padma Awards 2020". padmaawards.gov.in. Retrieved 8 November 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
↑ "J&K: Hussain Baig appointed deputy chief minister". News18. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Munshi, Suhas (25 January 2020). "PDP Co-founder Muzaffar Baig Honoured with Padma Bhushan". www.news18.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
↑ "Ex-PDP patron Muzaffar Hussain Baig joins Sajad's People Conference". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
↑ "After Muzaffar Hussain Baig's 'ghar wapsi', People's Conference eyes pan-Kashmir expansion". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

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[1] The Hindu Net Desk (26 January 2020). "Ex-PDP patron Muzaffar Hussain Baig join's Sajad's People Conference". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 27 January 2020.

[2] The Hindu Net Desk (26 January 2020). "Full list of 2020 Padma awardees". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

[3] "Padma Awards 2020". padmaawards.gov.in. Retrieved 8 November 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[4] "J&K: Hussain Baig appointed deputy chief minister". News18. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

[18news-25jan2020-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Munshi, Suhas (25 January 2020). "PDP Co-founder Muzaffar Baig Honoured with Padma Bhushan". www.news18.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020.

[6] "Ex-PDP patron Muzaffar Hussain Baig joins Sajad's People Conference". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

[7] "After Muzaffar Hussain Baig's 'ghar wapsi', People's Conference eyes pan-Kashmir expansion". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

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v t e Padma Bhushan award recipients (2020–2029)
2020	Sri M Syed Muazzem Ali^# Muzaffar Hussain Baig Ajoy Chakrabarty Manoj Das B. V. Doshi Krishnammal Jagannathan S. C. Jamir Anil Prakash Joshi Tsering Landol Anand Mahindra N. R. Madhava Menon^# Manohar Parrikar^# Jagdish Sheth P. V. Sindhu Venu Srinivasan
2021	K S Chithra Tarun Gogoi Chandrashekhara Kambara Sumitra Mahajan Nripendra Misra Ram Vilas Paswan Keshubhai Patel Kalbe Sadiq Rajnikant Devidas Shroff Tarlochan Singh
# Posthumous conferral 1954–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029