Srinagar, July 14: Veteran National Conference (NC) leader Mustafa Kamal, brother of three-time Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah, died on Tuesday after a prolonged illness, a party leader said. He was 83.
Kamal, a former J&K minister and uncle of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, breathed his last at a private hospital here around 5 pm, the party leader said.
“My father’s younger brother Dr Mustafa Kamal passed away earlier this evening at Paras hospital in Srinagar. Uncle Mustafa had been unwell for some months but took a turn for the worse 4 days ago.
Kamal served as a minister in the J&K government led by Farooq Abdullah in 1983, 1987 and 1996.
Before taking the political plunge, Kamal, who obtained an MBBS degree from Sawai Man Singh Medical College in Jaipur in 1962, worked as a general physician in Tangmarg, near Gulmarg, in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
His legislative career began with the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council, where he served from 1983 to 1987.
Throughout this period, Kamal held various high-profile cabinet portfolios across multiple state administrations, specifically serving as a minister in the governments formed in 1983, 1987, and 1996.
