Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad

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Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad
Sadar-i-Riyasat Karan Singh administers the oath of office to Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, after the 1957 elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
In office 9 August 1953 – 12 October 1963
President	Karan Singh
Preceded by	Sheikh Abdullah
Succeeded by	Khwaja Shamsuddin
Deputy Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
In office 5 March 1948 – 9 August 1953
Prime Minister	Sheikh Abdullah
Personal details
Political party	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference

Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad (1907–1972) was an Indian politician belonging to the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, who served as the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1953 to 1964. Bakshi was a member of the National Conference from its founding and rose to be the second in command to the principal leader Sheikh Abdullah. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir between 1947 and 1953, but disagreed with Abdullah's advocacy of independence for the state in 1953. He staged a 'coup'^[1] with the help of the Head of State Karan Singh, resulting in the dismissal and imprisonment of Sheikh Abdullah. Bakshi was the longest serving Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, whose rule saw the formulation of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir and a normalisation of relations of Jammu and Kashmir with the Indian government.