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Ghulam Mustafa Bhat

Indian politician

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Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ5557644 ↗
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Ghulam Mustafa Bhat (Urdu: غلام مصطفیٰ بٹ) was the senior leader of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference and Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation, the summer capital of the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir. At the age of 47, he died at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in 2011. He remained Mayor of SMC for two years and was appointed as the deputy Advocate General by the state Government of Jammu and Kashmir.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ghulam Mustafa Bhat” as indian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ghulam, Mustafa and Bhat can be independently traced.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5557644. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ghulam Mustafa Bhat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.