Sakina Itoo

Sakina Itoo
Minister for Social Welfare and Administrative Reforms, Inspections, Trainings & Public Grievances
In office 2008–2014
Governor	Narinder Nath Vohra
Chief Minister	Omar Abdullah
Preceded by	Peerzada Mohammad Sayed
Succeeded by	Sajjad Gani Lone
Minister of State for Education Department, Government of J&K
In office 1996–1999
Governor	Girish Chandra Saxena
Chief Minister	Farooq Abdullah
Minister of State for Tourism Department and Floriculture, Government of J&K (Independent charge)
In office 1999–2002
Governor	Girish Chandra Saxena
Chief Minister	Farooq Abdullah
Member Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council
In office 2002–2008
Governor	S.K Sinha
Chief Minister	Mufti Sayeed , Ghulam Nabi Azad
Member Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
In office 1996–2002
Governor	Girish Chandra Saxena
Chief Minister	Farooq Abdullah
Constituency	Noorabad
Leader of the Opposition, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council
In office 2002–2008
Chairman	Amrit Malhotra
Preceded by	Mohammed Muzaffar Parray
Succeeded by	Nayeem Akter
Member Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
In office 2009–2015
Governor	N.N Vohra
Chief Minister	Omar Abdullah
Constituency	Noorabad
Personal details
Born	(1970-12-05) 5 December 1970 Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir
Political party	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference
Parent	Wali Mohammad Itoo ( Ex-Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly) (father)
Education	Intermediate

Sakina Itoo (born 5 December 1970) is a Kashmiri politician former Cabinet Minister and the former member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council. A member of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, she represented Noorabad twice in 1996 and 2008.

She is the president for Jammu & Kashmir National Conference in South Kashmir also state secretary of national conference and she was the only woman to serve in Kashmir's state cabinet ministry in 2008 when Omar Abdullah was incumbent chief minister.

Biography

Itoo was born to Wali Mohammad Itoo, speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly on 5 December 1970 in Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir. She did her intermediate from the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education in 1991. Later, she started her MBBS practice, professional degree in medicine, but left midway amidst of her father's killing in 1994 and subsequently joined politics. During her political career, Itoo served as a minister in several departments such as Deputy Minister for Education in 1996, State Minister for Social Welfare, and Public Works. Later, she was appointed as a Minister of Tourism and served the department until 2002. In 2002, she lost an assembly constituency election and was later nominated as a Member of Legislative Council by the party in 2004.

In 2014 state assembly election campaign, a heavily circulated video clip showed her ordering an old man to vote for her in the name of Allah. The video was reported as a violation of the Model Code of Conduct to the Election Commission of India by the opposition party. Omar Abdullah and the National Conference defended Itoo.