Mirza Mehboob Beg

Mirza Mehboob Beg, born on 4 September 1949 in Sarnal in the Anantnag district, is a veteran politician from Jammu and Kashmir who belongs to the Peoples' Democratic Party and serves as its General Secretary for organisation. He is the son of Mirza Afzal Beg, the first Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and trained as a doctor at Srinagar Medical College. He won the Anantnag seat in the Legislative Assembly in 1983 and was made Cabinet Minister for Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare in 1984. He later sat in the Legislative Council and, from 2009, in the Lok Sabha, where he held committee posts. He joined the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2015 as its chief spokesperson, after earlier serving as provincial president of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference for Kashmir.