Mubarak Gul

Mubarak Gul
Speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
In office 28 February 2013 – 18 March 2015
Governor	Narinder Nath Vohra
Chief Minister	Omar Abdullah
Preceded by	Akbar Lone
Succeeded by	Kavinder Gupta
Member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
In office 2014–2018
Constituency	Eidgah
In office 2008–2014
Constituency	Eidgah
In office 2002–2008
Constituency	Eidgah
In office 1996–2002
Constituency	Eidgah
In office 1983–1986
Constituency	Eidgah
Incumbent
Assumed office 2024
Constituency	Eidgah
Member of J&K Legislative Council (MLC)
In office 1987–1993
Personal details
Born	1951 (age 74–75)
Party	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference
Education	BA
Alma mater	University of Kashmir

Mubarak Ahmad Gul (born 1951), also known as Mubarak Gul, is an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir. He is a six time member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and seven time legislator.In 2024, he won from Eidgah Assembly constituency.

Representing Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, he also served speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly from 2013 to 2015 and was advisor to the then chief minister Omar Abdullah. He was also appointed Pro-tem Speaker of J&K Legislative Assembly in 2024.

Early life and education

Gul is from Shah Mohallah, Nawabazar, Srinagar district, Jammu and Kashmir. He is the son of Haji Ghulam Mohammad Nihami,a freedom fighter during the Quit Kashmir Movement started by Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah. He completed his B.A.in 1978 at a college affiliated with Kashmir University.

Career

Gul started his political career as a councillor in 1976 and was also the president of Rural Development Society, Jammu and Kashmir Youth Federation, in addition to serving as the president of youth wing of National Conference. After electing to the assembly in 1983, the party declined to give him mandate, but was later selected to the upper house by the NC party, the ruling party of that time.

He was first elected to the Jammu and Kashmir assembly in 1983, and then in 1996, 2002, and 2008. He contested his last election in 2014 assembly polls and won from Eidgah constituency.

On 28 February 2013, Gul replaced Akbar Lone as the speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, as Lone was taken into the cabinet by CM Omar Abdullah.

Electoral performance

Election	Constituency	Party		Result	Votes %	Opposition Candidate	Opposition Party		Opposition vote %	Ref
2024	Eidgah		JKNC	Won	33.50%	Ghulam Nabi Bhat		Independent	26.19%
2014	Eidgah		JKNC	Won	41.38%	Ali Mohammad Wani		JKPDP	37.66%
2008	Eidgah		JKNC	Won	35.97%	Asifa Tariq Qara		JKPDP	22.42%
2002	Eidgah		JKNC	Won	60.62%	Mohammed Ashraf Bakashi		Independent	22.35%
1996	Eidgah		JKNC	Won	78.12%	Farooq Ahmad		JD	9.85%
1983	Eidgah		JKNC	Won	93.87%	Ghulam Mohammed Misgar		INC	3.28%