Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg

Mirza Mohammad Afzal Bég (d 1982) was a Kashmiri politician , First Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmirand lieutenant of the late Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Abdullah.[1] He was also the president of the 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.[2][3]

Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg
Mirza Afzal Beg
Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
1974–1977

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.[4]

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.[5]

Death

Mirza Afzal Beg died on 11 June 1982. He is survived by three sons and three daughters. His eldest son Dr Mirza Mohammad Aijaz Beg is a very renowned medico and has served state government for about forty years and retired as Deputy director health services. He is the only son who has been residing at ancestral place throughout. He was never interested in politics and has got a great rapport of being pious and honest administrator and human being. His second son Mirza Mehboob Beg took on his father's mantle and is also a widely respected and envied politician in the state. The Beg family enjoys a very good rapport with the people and are widely respected for their honesty and integrity.

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