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{{short description|Political party in Jammu and Kashmir, India}}
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{{Infobox Indian political party
|party_name         = Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party
|abbreviation       = JKPDP
|party_logo         = Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party.png
|colorcode          = {{party color|Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party}}
|chairman           = 
|ppchairman         = 
|loksabha_leader    = 
|rajyasabha_leader  = Vacant
|foundation         = 1999
|founder            = [[Mufti Mohammed Sayeed]]
|headquarters       = 2, Circuit House, Emporium Lane, Residency Road, [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], [[India]]<ref>{{cite web|title=JKPDP Srinagar Office |url=http://jkpdp.org/contact-us/srinagar-office |publisher=JKPDP.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503124958/http://jkpdp.org/contact-us/srinagar-office/ |archive-date=2014-05-03 }}</ref>
|eci                = State Party<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18.01.2013|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ElectoralLaws/OrdersNotifications/ElecSym19012013_eng.pdf|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=9 May 2013|location=India|year=2013}}</ref>
|alliance  = * [[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance]] (2023–present)
* [[National Democratic Alliance]]<ref name="dupref">{{cite news | url=https://www.cp24.com/world/hindu-nationalist-party-forms-coalition-government-in-kashmir-1.2258773 | title=Hindu nationalist party forms coalition government in Kashmir | first=Aijaz | last=Hussain | publisher=The Associated Press | date=1 March 2015 | access-date=18 March 2018 }}</ref> (2014–2018)
|loksabha_seats     =  {{Composition bar|0|543|hex={{party color|Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party}}}}
|rajyasabha_seats   = {{Composition bar|0|245|hex={{party color|Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party}}}}
|state2_seats_name  = [[District Development Council]]
|state2_seats       =
{{Composition bar|27|280|hex={{party color|Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party}}}} 
|ideology           = [[Kashmiriyat]]<br>[[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir statehood]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jammu Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party |title=Self Rule |url=https://jkpdp.in/self-rule |access-date=16 October 2020}}</ref><br>[[Regionalism (politics)|Regionalism]]<br>[[Islamic democracy]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Mehbooba Mufti suspends poll campaign for a day after killing of Hezbollah leader, says ‘stand with people of Palestine, Lebanon’|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/mehbooba-mufti-suspends-poll-campaign-for-a-day-after-killing-of-hezbollah-leader-says-stand-with-people-of-palestine-lebanon/article68696995.ece}}</ref>
|position           = [[Centre-right politics|Centre-right]]
|publication        = 
|youth              =PDP Youth Wing 
|students           = Peoples Democratic Student Union<ref>{{cite news|title=PDSU- students' wing of PDP formulated |url=http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2013/Nov/29/pdsu-students-wing-of-pdp-formulated-26.asp |publisher=Greater Kashmir |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221124558/http://greaterkashmir.com/news/2013/Nov/29/pdsu-students-wing-of-pdp-formulated-26.asp |archive-date=2014-02-21 }}</ref>
|women              = 
|labour             = 
|peasants           = 
|website            = {{URL|https://jkpdp.in}}
|symbol             = [[File:Indian Election Symbol Ink Pot and Pen.png|Ink-pot & Pen|200px]]
|international      =
|colours            = 
|state_seats_name  = [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]]
|state_seats        = {{Composition bar|3|90|hex={{party color|Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party}}}}
|flag=
|president=[[Mehbooba Mufti]]|general_secretary=Abdul Haq Khan, Mohd Khurshid Alam|leader=[[Waheed Para]]}}

The '''Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party''' ('''PDP''') is a state [[political party]] in [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/kashmirtheforgottenconflict/2011/07/2011731141936565451.html|title=Profiles: Political parties: The key political parties in Jammu and Kashmir.
|date=2 August 2011|website=www.aljazeera.com|access-date=2018-07-04}}</ref> The PDP was headed and founded by [[Mufti Mohammed Sayeed]]. His daughter, [[Mehbooba Mufti]], succeeded him as party leader and as [[List of Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir|chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir]] following his death in January 2016. The party is a member of the [[People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration]] electoral alliance. The party is also a member of the [[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance]] since its founding on 18 June 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-07-18 |title=Picking the name INDIA for alliance, Opposition parties frame 2024 battle as BJP vs the country |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/picking-the-name-india-for-alliance-opposition-parties-frame-2024-battle-as-bjp-vs-the-country/article67094766.ece |access-date=2023-07-19 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> 

Currently Mehbooba Mufti<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-05-17 |title=Engineer Rashid's campaigner Shoukat Pandit detained by J-K police: Mehbooba Mufti |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/engineer-rashids-campaigner-shoukat-pandit-detained-by-j-k-police-mehbooba-mufti/articleshow/110200985.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2024-05-18 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}}</ref> remains as the president of the party, with [[Waheed Para]] serving as the legislative party leader in the J&K Assembly, [[Fayaz Ahmad Mir]] as whip <ref>{{Cite web |last=Desk |first=GK Web |date=2024-11-14 |title=PDP appoints Dr Mehboob Beg as party's chief spokesperson |url=https://www.greaterkashmir.com/jammu-kashmir/pdp-appoints-dr-mehboob-beg-as-partys-chief-spokesperson/ |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=Greater Kashmir |language=en-US}}</ref> and [[Mirza Mehboob Beg]] as the Chief Spokesperson for the party.

== History ==

The PDP was founded in 1999 by the former [[Minister of Home Affairs (India)|Union Home Minister]] [[Mufti Mohammed Sayeed]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Official Website of Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (J&K PDP)|url=https://jkpdp.in/|access-date=2021-02-12|website=Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name = "rediff_new_party">{{cite news | last = Mukhtar | first = Ahmad | title = Mufti floats new regional party in Kashmir | work=[[Rediff.com]] | date = 28 July 1999 | url = http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/jul/28mufti.htm | access-date = 5 March 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=JKPDP History |url=http://jkpdp.org/our-party/history |publisher=JKPDP.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109151442/http://jkpdp.org/our-party/history/ |archive-date=2014-01-09 }}</ref> It captured power in Jammu and Kashmir in [[2002 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|October 2002 Assembly elections]]. In 2004, it had one member each in the [[Lok Sabha]] and in the [[Rajya Sabha]]. It was a member of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] until the [[2009 Indian general election|2009 general election]].<ref>{{cite news|title=United Progressive Alliance: Partners in governance|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/specials/United-Progressive-Alliance-Partners-in-governance/articleshow/1716941.cms|publisher=Times of India}}</ref>

Sayeed headed the PDP-[[Indian National Congress]] coalition government between October 2002 and November 2005, and he was the party's patron until his death on 7 January 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=JKPDP Patron |url=http://jkpdp.org/organization/patron |publisher=JKPDP.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514162149/http://jkpdp.org/organization/patron/ |archive-date=2014-05-14 }}</ref> The PDP is now headed by [[Mehbooba Mufti]], Sayeed's daughter.<ref>{{cite web|title=JKPDP Office Bearers |url=http://jkpdp.org/organization/office-bearers |publisher=JKPDP.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503051107/http://jkpdp.org/organization/office-bearers/ |archive-date=2014-05-03 }}</ref>

The PDP operates on the ideology of self-rule, as distinctly different from the issues of autonomy. It believes that self-rule as a political philosophy, as opposed to autonomy, ensures the empowerment of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, while further engaging in debates over new political territoriality of the Jammu and Kashmir.<ref name="b">{{cite web|title=Self Rule Framework |url=http://jkpdp.org/self-rule/self-rule-framework |publisher=JKPDP.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109142821/http://jkpdp.org/self-rule/self-rule-framework/ |archive-date=2014-01-09 }}</ref>

In the [[2014 Indian general election|2014 general election]], three of its members were elected to the Lok Sabha, and its strength in the [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly]] was 28 and in the Rajya Sabha was two.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rajya Sabha Polls in Jammu and Kashmir: PDP Wins Two|url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/rajya-sabha-polls-in-jammu-and-kashmir-bjp-opens-account-pdp-wins-two-737782}}</ref> The party ran a [[coalition government]] in Jammu and Kashmir with the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<ref name="dupref" /> until the BJP abandoned the coalition on June 19, 2018, due to concerns about terrorism and radicalization in Kashmir.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/bjp-quits-government-jammu-and-kashmir-ends-alliance-pdp-83323|title=BJP quits government in Jammu and Kashmir, ends alliance with PDP|date=2018-06-19|work=The News Minute|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref> 

The party won just 3 seats in the [[2024 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election]]. It was also its worst election performance in Jammu and Kashmir since its formation.

== Election results ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
! style="width:25%;"| Year
! style="width:15%;"| Election
! style="width:15%;"| Seats Won
! style="width:15%;"| Change in Seat
! style="width:15%;"| % of votes
! style="width:15%;"| votes swing
! class="unsortable" | Ref.
|- style="text-align:center;"
|| [[1998 Indian general election]]
|| [[12th Lok Sabha]]
|| 0
||
||
||
||
|- style="text-align:center;"
|| [[2002 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|2002 Legislative Assembly election]]
|| 8th Assembly
|| 16
|| 
|| 
||
||
|- style="text-align:center;"
|| [[2004 Indian general election]]
|| [[14th Lok Sabha]]
|| 1
|| 22.02
||
|| {{increase}}2
||&nbsp;–
|- style="text-align:center;"
|| [[2008 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|2008 Legislative Assembly election]]
|| 9th Assembly
|| 21
|| 5
|| 
|| {{increase}}5
||&nbsp;–
|- style="text-align:center;"
|| [[2009 Indian general election]]
|| [[15th Lok Sabha]]
|| 0
|| 
|| 
|| {{decrease}} 2
||&nbsp;–
|- style="text-align:center;"
|| [[2014 Indian general election]]
|| [[16th Lok Sabha]]
|| 3
|| 3
|| 20.50
||
||{{sfn|Election Commission|2014}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
|| [[2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|2014 Legislative Assembly election]]
|| [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly|10th Assembly]]
|| 28
|| 5
|| 22.7
|| {{increase}} 7
||&nbsp;–
|- style="text-align:center;"
|| [[District Development Council|2020 District Development Council]]
|| [[District Development Council|1st Council]]
|| 27
|| 27
|| 3.9
|| {{increase}} 27
||&nbsp;–
|-
|[[2024 Indian general election]]
|[[18th Lok Sabha]]
|0
|0
|8.48
|
|
|-
|[[2024 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election]]
|[[2024 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election]]
|3          
| -25
|8.87
|
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
|}

==List of ministers==
===Chief===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! No
! Name
! Image
! Constituency
! colspan=2| Term of office
! Tenure length
! colspan=2| Party
! Governor
|- align=center style="height: 60px;"
| 1
| [[Mufti Mohammad Sayeed]]
| [[File:Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.jpg|100px]]
| Pahalgam
| 2 November 2002 
| 2 November 2005
| {{age in years and days|2002|11|2|2005|11|2}}
| People's Democratic Party
| width="4px" style="background-color: green" |
|[[Girish Chandra Saxena]]
|- align=center style="height: 60px;"
| 2
| [[Mufti Mohammad Sayeed]] 
| [[File:Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.jpg|100px]]
| Anantnag
| 1  March 2015 
| 7 January 2016
| {{age in years and days|2015|3|1|2016|1|7}}
| People's Democratic Party
| width="4px" style="background-color: green" |
|[[Narinder Nath Vohra|N. N. Vohra]]
|- align=center style="height: 60px;"
| 3
| [[Mehbooba Mufti]]
| [[File:MehboobaMufti Ji.jpg|100px]]
| Anantnag
| 4 April 2016 
| 20 June 2018
| {{age in years and days|2016|4|4|2018|6|20}}
| People's Democratic Party
| width="4px" style="background-color: green" |
|[[Narinder Nath Vohra|N. N. Vohra]]
|- align=center style="height: 60px;"
|}

===Deputy chief===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! No
! Name
! Constituency
! colspan=2| Term of office
! Tenure length
!5,years
|- align=center style="height: 60px;"
| 1
| [[Muzaffar Hussain Baig]]
| [[Pahalgam (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Pahalgam]]
| 2 November 2006
| 11 July 2008
| {{age in years and days|2006|11|02|2008|07|11}}
| [[2002 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|10th]]

|}

==See also==
*[[Jammu and Kashmir National Conference]]
*[[Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party]]
*[[Jammu and Kashmir Workers Party]]
* [[Ikkjutt Jammu]] 
* [[Politics of Jammu and Kashmir]] 
* [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
* [[Indian National Congress]]
* [[Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

===Works cited===
* {{cite web |title=General Election to Lok Sabha Trends and Results |url=http://eciresults.nic.in/ |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=18 June 2014 |ref={{harvid |Election Commission |2014}} |archive-date=18 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218160549/http://eciresults.nic.in/ |url-status=dead}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [https://jkpdp.in Official Website]
* [http://www.elections.in/political-parties-in-india/jammu-and-kashmir-peoples-democratic-party.html Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party] at Elections.in

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