Editing Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (section)

==Death==
[[File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi paying homage at the mortal remains of Shri Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, at Palam Airport, in New Delhi on January 07, 2016. The Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh is also seen (1).jpg|thumb|The prime minister, Narendra Modi paying homage at the mortal remains of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, at [[Palam Airport]], in New Delhi on 7 January 2016]]
On 24 December 2015, Sayeed was admitted to the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi|AIIMS]] hospital in New Delhi. He suffered from neck pain and fever. His condition gradually deteriorated, and he was put on ventilator support. He died on 7 January 2016 due to multi-organ failure<ref>{{cite news |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/mufti-mohammad-sayeed-dies-jammu-and-kashmir/ |title=Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, passes away at AIIMS Delhi |date=7 January 2016 |newspaper=Indian Express }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=J&K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passes away|url=http://www.abplive.in/india-news/jk-cm-mufti-mohammad-sayeed-passes-away-270725|website=ABP Live|access-date=7 January 2016|archive-date=8 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108013017/http://www.abplive.in/india-news/jk-cm-mufti-mohammad-sayeed-passes-away-270725|url-status=dead}}</ref> at about 7:30, according to provincial Education Minister and PDP Spokesman Nayeem Akhter.<ref name="React"/> He was just five days short of his 80th birthday when he died.

Reactions to this death came from prime minister [[Narendra Modi]], national Home Minister [[Rajnath Singh]] at Delhi airport and the [[14th Dalai Lama]].<ref>[[Yeshe Choesang]], [http://www.thetibetpost.com/en/news/exile/4867-his-holiness-the-dalai-lama-of-tibet-offers-condolences-to-ms-mufti His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet offers condolences to Ms Mufti], 11 January 2016, Tibet Post International</ref> He was buried at his ancestral burial ground in Bijbehera<ref>{{cite web|url=http://onlykashmir.in/mufti-mohammad-sayeed-laid-to-rest/|title=Mufti Mohammad Sayeed laid to rest - Only Kashmir - Behind the News|access-date=23 October 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126140733/http://onlykashmir.in/mufti-mohammad-sayeed-laid-to-rest/|archive-date=26 January 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> with state honours. Former chief ministers [[Omar Abdullah]] and [[Ghulam Nabi Azad]] were present at his funeral.<ref name="trib"/> Condolences also came from former president [[Pranab Mukherjee]], former deputy prime minister [[L. K. Advani]], [[Ram Madhav]], Delhi chief minister [[Arvind Kejriwal]], BJP vice president [[Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi]], former national Oil minister [[Milind Deora]], PDP member Rafi Mir and politicians Kalraj Mishra, [[Jitendra Singh (BJP politician)|Jitendra Singh]] and Ahmed Patel.<ref name="React">{{cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/politics/he-provided-a-healing-touch-to-kashmir-from-modi-to-kejriwal-condolences-pour-in-for-mufti-mohammad-sayeed-2573756.html|title='He provided a healing touch to Kashmir': From PM Modi to Kejriwal, condolences pour in for Mufti Mohammad Sayeed - Firstpost|date=7 January 2016|access-date=23 October 2016}}</ref>

According to party member and PDP chief spokesperson [[Mirza Mehboob Beg]],<ref name="React"/> the PDP supported his daughter, Mehbooba Mufti, as the next chief minister, while coalition ally BJP expressed "no objection" to her succeeding her father.<ref name="trib">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/cm-who-brought-jammu-with-kashmir-dies/180846.html|title=CM who brought Jammu with Kashmir dies}}</ref>

Sayeed was buried in [[Dara Shikoh Garden|Dara Shikoh Garden Bijbehara]].<ref name="y503">{{cite web | last=Ehsan | first=Mir | title=Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, laid to rest in Mughal era park he developed | website=The Indian Express | date=8 Jan 2016 | url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/mufti-mohammad-sayeed-laid-to-rest-at-ancestral-graveyard-in-anantnag-district/ | access-date=11 Oct 2024}}</ref>