Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq

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{{infobox officeholder

|name = Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq

|image = Gulam Mohammad Sadiq.png

|office= 1st Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (state)

|term_start = 30 March 1965

|term_end = 12 December 1971

|predecessor2 = Himself as a Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir

|successor2 = Syed Mir Qasim

|office3 = 4th Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir

|president3 = Karan Singh

|term_start3 = 29 February 1964

|term_end3 = 30 March 1965

|predecessor3 = Khwaja Shamsuddin

|successor3 = Himself as a Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir

|party = National Conference | otherparty= Indian National Congress

|education = Islamia College, Lahore and Aligarh Muslim University

}}

Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq (1912 – 1971) was an Indian politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1964 to 1965, when the position was renamed to Chief Minister.{{sfn|Das Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir|2012|p=193}} He continued as the Chief Minister till his death in 1971.{{sfn|Bose, Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|2003|p=87}}{{citation|last=Gauhar|first=G. N.|title=Abdul Ahad Azad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3lpwcT0rJJwC&pg=PA60|year=1997|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-0322-8|pages=60–}}

Education and career

He was a graduate of Islamia College in Lahore and Aligarh Muslim University.{{Cite web|title=Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq, 59, Kashmir Chief Minister, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/13/archives/ghulam-mohammed-sadiq-59-kashmir-chief-minister-dies.html|website=New York Times |date=13 December 1971}} He served in Sheikh Abdullah's first cabinet from 1947 to 1953.{{Cite web|title=My faith in India still strong: Kin of last J&K PM|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/my-faith-in-india-still-strong-kin-of-last-jammu-and-kashmir-pm-ghulam-mohammad-sadiq/cid/1702408|access-date=2020-12-16|website=www.telegraphindia.com}} He was the leader of the National Conference party from 1957 to 1961 after which he joined the Indian National Congress. He was elected the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in 1964. He became the first chief minister of the state in 1965, when the J&K Constitution was amended (Sixth Constitution of J&K Amendment Act, 1965) by the then Congress government and the position of Prime Minister was replaced with Chief Minister.{{Cite web|date=2019-04-15|title=Explained: When Jammu & Kashmir had its own Prime Minister and Sadr-e-Riyasat|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/when-jammu-kashmir-had-its-own-prime-minister-and-sadr-e-riyasat-5675554/|access-date=2020-12-16|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}

He died in office following a heart attack on 12 December 1971.{{Cite web|agency=Tribune News Service|title=Third JK CM to die in harness|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/third-jk-cm-to-die-in-harness-180741|access-date=2020-12-16|website=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en}}

References

Bibliography

{{citation |first=Sumantra |last=Bose |author-link=Sumantra Bose |title=Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2003 |ISBN=0-674-01173-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ACMe9WBdNAC |ref={{sfnref|Bose, Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|2003}}}}
{{citation |last=Das Gupta |first=Jyoti Bhusan |title=Jammu and Kashmir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dpTpCAAAQBAJ&pg |date=2012 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-94-011-9231-6 |ref={{sfnref|Das Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir|2012}}}}

{{Succession box

| before = Khwaja Shamsuddin

| title = Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir

| years = 1964 – 1965

| after = Office Abolished

}}

{{Succession box

| before = Office Created

| title = Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir

| years = 1965 – 1971

| after = Syed Mir Qasim

}}