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Mangat Ram Sharma, who was included in the Cabinet of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, is the third deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and the second one from the Jammu region.
The first deputy chief minister of the state was Mirza Afzal Baig, who got the post in Sheikh Abdullah's Cabinet in 1977.
His tenure, however, was short lived as he was forced to resign on September 25, 1978.
Two days after his resignation, Baig was also expelled from the National Conference.
On July 2, 1984, D D Thakur was sworn in as the deputy chief minister in the Ghulam Mohammed Shah Cabinet.
Thakur, who was a trusted lieutenant of Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, won the deputy chief minister's post for having engineered a split in Farooq Abdullah's government, and founding the Awami National Conference.
His tenure lasted till March 6, 1986, when the Congress withdrew support from Shah's government and backed Farooq Abdullah.
The 71-year-old Mangat Ram Sharma is the third politician and the first Congressman to have risen to the post.
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