Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami


Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami is an Indian politician and the Communist Party of India Jammu and Kashmir state committee secretary. He represents the Kulgam constituency in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. He started as a student leader at Anantnag College. He won the seat for the Kulgam constituency in 1996, 2002, 2008 and 2014.He became first political leader from Jammu & Kashmir to address a press conference after abrogation of Article 370.

Early Life

Tarigami was born in 1949. His family name, comes from his village – Tarigam, that lies near National Highway 44 to Jammu.

Political Life

He was shaped as a communist under the influence of Abdul Karim Wani.
In 1967, he was imprisoned for taking up the cause of farmers against the forcible procurement of rice. He went again imprisoned in 1975. While he was in prison, his wife died tragically. The government released him on parole for a month but rearrested him after three days. In 1979, he was the first person to be booked under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act of 1978. He has been imprisoned in various jails like the Sub-Jail Reasi, the very dangerous torture centres of Red-16 and Papa II. In 2005, militants entered the heavily guarded Tulsibagh colony in Srinagar and attacked the homes of Tarigami and the Minister for Education Ghulam Nabi Lone. Lone was killed. In the attack in 2005, Tarigami's guards fought off the attackers, although one of his guards was killed.

People representative

Tarigami won the seat for the Kulgam constituency in 1996, 2002, 2008 and 2014.