Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami

Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami is an Indian politician and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Jammu and Kashmir state committee secretary. He represents the Kulgam constituency in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.[1] He started as a student leader at Anantnag College. He won the seat for the Kulgam constituency in 1996, 2002, 2008 and 2014.[2][3][4] He was the first political leader from Jammu & Kashmir to address a press conference after abrogation of Article 370.[5]

Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami
M. Y. Tarigami
Member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
for Kulgam
In office
1996–2018
ConstituencyKulgam, Jammu & Kashmir
Personal details
Born (1949-07-17) 17 July 1949
Tarigam, Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
ResidenceKulgam
Websitehttp://massstruggle.com/

Early life

Tarigami was born in 1949. His family name, comes from his village – Tarigam, that lies near National Highway 44 to Jammu.

Political Life

He was shaped as a communist under the influence of Abdul Karim Wani . In 1967, he was imprisoned for taking up the cause of farmers against the forcible procurement of rice. He went again imprisoned in 1975. While he was in prison, his wife died tragically . The government released him on parole for a month but rearrested him after three days. In 1979, he was the first person to be booked under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act of 1978. He has been imprisoned in various jails like the Sub-Jail Reasi, the very dangerous torture centres of Red-16 and Papa II. In 2005, militants entered the heavily guarded Tulsibagh colony in Srinagar and attacked the homes of Tarigami and the Minister for Education Ghulam Nabi Lone. Lone was killed. (In 2015, ten years after Ghulam Nabi Lone's death, there was another minister in Kashmir with the same name belonging to People's Democratic Party PDP.[6]) In the attack in 2005, Tarigami's guards fought off the attackers, although one of his guards was killed.[7]

On 24 October 2020 he was elected as the convenor of the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration.[8]

People representative

Tarigami won the seat for the Kulgam constituency in 1996, 2002, 2008 and 2014.

References
  1. http://newshopper.sulekha.com/topic/communist-party-of-India/news/cpi-m-s-tarigami-wins-again.htm%5B%5D
  2. "Leading/Winning Candidate in Kulgam assembly constituency". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  3. "Tariq Hameed Karra should have raised Kashmir issue in Parliament: CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami". 28 September 2016.
  4. http://dailykashmirimages.com/Details/122080/tarigami-flays-govt-for-%E2%80%98unconcern-on-separatists-detentions. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. K. Nair, Sobhana (17 September 2019). "Kashmiris are dying a slow death, says CPI(M) leader Tarigami". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  6. https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-journalist-beating-agriculture-minister-ghulam-nabi-lone-willing-for-apology-after-uproar-2098259
  7. Prasad, Vijay (16 September 2019). "Yusuf Tarigami - Kashmir's Communist". Newsclick. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  8. "Farooq Abdullah to lead Gupkar alliance". The Hindu. PTI. 24 October 2020.


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