Seventy nine -year-old Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who breathed his last this morning at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, is the third Chief Minister of the state who died in office. Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq, last Prime Minister and first Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, died in office on December 12, 1971, while the Indo-Pak war was on. Sayed Mir Qasim became the Chief Minister of the state after the death of Sadiq. Although Sayeed Mir Qasim remained the Chief Minister till February 25, 1975, yet after…
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