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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{other people||Ghulam Mohammad (disambiguation)}}
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{{infobox officeholder  
|name   = Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq
|image  = Gulam Mohammad Sadiq.png
|office= 1st [[Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]]
|term_start  = 30 March 1965
|term_end    = 21 February 1967
|term_start1  = 21 February 1967
|term_end1    = 12 December 1971
|predecessor2  = Himself as a [[Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]]
|successor2 = [[Syed Mir Qasim]]
|office3  = 4th [[Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]]
|president3  = [[Karan Singh]] 
|term_start3 = 29 February 1964
|term_end3   = 30 March 1965
|predecessor3 = [[Khwaja Shamsuddin]]
|successor3   = Himself as a [[Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]]   
|party = [[Jammu & Kashmir National Conference|National Conference]],<br/> [[Indian National Congress]]
|education = Islamia College, Lahore and Aligarh Muslim University 
}}
'''Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq''' (1912 &ndash; 1971) was an Indian politician, who served as the [[List of Prime and Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir|Prime Minister]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] from 1964 to 1965, when the position was renamed to [[List of Prime and Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir|Chief Minister]].{{sfn|Das Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir|2012|p=193}} He continued as the Chief Minister till his death in 1971.{{sfn|Bose, Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|2003|p=87}}<ref name="Gauhar1997">{{citation|last=Gauhar|first=G. N.|title=Abdul Ahad Azad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3lpwcT0rJJwC&pg=PA60|year=1997|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-0322-8|pages=60–}}</ref>

==Education and career==
He was a graduate of [[Islamia College (Lahore)|Islamia College]] in Lahore and [[Aligarh Muslim University]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq, 59, Kashmir Chief Minister, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/13/archives/ghulam-mohammed-sadiq-59-kashmir-chief-minister-dies.html|website=New York Times |date=13 December 1971}}</ref> He served in Sheikh Abdullah’s first cabinet from 1947 to 1953. <ref>{{Cite web|title=My faith in India still strong: Kin of last J&K PM|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/my-faith-in-india-still-strong-kin-of-last-jammu-and-kashmir-pm-ghulam-mohammad-sadiq/cid/1702408|access-date=2020-12-16|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref> and was the leader of the National Conference party from 1957 to 1961 after which he joined the Indian National Congress. He was elected the [[List of Prime and Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir|Prime Minister]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] in 1964. He became the first chief minister of the state in 1965, when the J&K Constitution was amended (Sixth Constitution of J&K Amendment Act, 1965) by the then Congress government, and the position of Prime Minister was replaced with Chief Minister.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-04-15|title=Explained: When Jammu & Kashmir had its own Prime Minister and Sadr-e-Riyasat|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/when-jammu-kashmir-had-its-own-prime-minister-and-sadr-e-riyasat-5675554/|access-date=2020-12-16|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref>

He died in office following a heart attack on December 12, 1971. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Service|first=Tribune News|title=Third JK CM to die in harness|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/third-jk-cm-to-die-in-harness-180741|access-date=2020-12-16|website=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{citation |first=Sumantra |last=Bose |author-link=Sumantra Bose |title=Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2003 |ISBN=0-674-01173-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ACMe9WBdNAC |ref={{sfnref|Bose, Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|2003}}}}
* {{citation |last=Das Gupta |first=Jyoti Bhusan |title=Jammu and Kashmir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dpTpCAAAQBAJ&pg |date=2012 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-94-011-9231-6 |ref={{sfnref|Das Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir|2012}}}}

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| before = [[Khwaja Shamsuddin]]
| title  = [[Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]]
| years  = 1964 &ndash; 1965
| after  = Office Abolished
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| title  = [[Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]]
| years  = 1965 &ndash; 1971
| after  = [[Syed Mir Qasim]]
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[[Category:1912 births]]
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[[Category:Kashmiri people]]
[[Category:Jammu & Kashmir National Conference politicians]]
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[[Category:Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir]]
[[Category:Chief ministers from Indian National Congress]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]


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