page_title: Sheikh Abdullah
section_title: Prime minister
hierarchical_section_title: Sheikh Abdullah / Head of Government / Prime minister
caption_attribution_description: English: Sheikh Abdullah receives Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his arrival at Srinagar Airport on September 24, 1949 to take part in the All Jammu &amp; Kashmir National Conference.
context_page_description: Mohammed Abdullah Sheikh was a Kashmiri politician who played a central role in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost Indian state. Referred as "Sher-e-Kashmir", Abdullah was the founding leader of the All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference and the 1st elected Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir after its accession to India. He agitated against the rule of the Maharaja Hari Singh and urged self-rule for Kashmir.
  He served as the 1st elected Prime Minister of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir and was later jailed and exiled. He was dismissed from the position of Prime Ministership on 8 August 1953 and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad was appointed as the new Prime Minister. The expressions ‘Sadar-i-Riyasat’ and ‘Prime Minister’ were replaced with the terms ‘Governor’ and ‘Chief Minister’ in 1965. Sheikh Abdullah again became the Chief Minister of the state following the 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord and remained in the top slot till his death on 8 September 1982.
context_section_description: Sheikh Abdullah took oath as Prime Minister of Kashmir on 17 March 1948.
caption: Sheikh Abdullah receiving Nehru in Srinagar, 1947.
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