| Sakina Itoo | |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Honorific Suffix: | Cabinet Minister (J&K) |
| Birth Date: | 1970 12, df=yes |
| Education: | Intermediate |
| Residence: | Damhal Hanji Pora, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Father: | Wali Mohammad Itoo (Ex-Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly) |
| Office: | Minister for Social Welfare and Administrative Reforms, Inspections, Trainings & Public Grievances |
| Term Start: | 2008 |
| Term End: | 2014 |
| Predecessor: | Peerzada Mohammad Sayed |
| Successor: | Sajjad Gani Lone |
| Governor: | Narinder Nath Vohra |
| 1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata: | Omar Abdullah |
| Office1: | Minister of State for Education, Government of J&K |
| Term Start1: | 1996 |
| Term End1: | 1999 |
| Governor1: | Girish Chandra Saxena |
| 1Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata1: | Farooq Abdullah |
| Office2: | Minister of State for Tourism and Floriculture, Government of J&K (Independent charge) |
| Term Start2: | 1999 |
| Term End2: | 2002 |
| Governor2: | Girish Chandra Saxena |
| 1Blankname2: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata2: | Farooq Abdullah |
| Office5: | Member Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council |
| Term Start5: | 2002 |
| Term End5: | 2008 |
| Governor5: | S.K Sinha |
| 1Blankname5: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata5: | Mufti Sayeed Ghulam Nabi Azad |
| Office3: | Leader of the Opposition in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council |
| 1Blankname3: | Chairman |
| 1Namedata3: | Abdul Rashid Dar Ghulam Nabi Lone |
| Predecessor3: | Mohammed Muzaffar Parray |
| Successor3: | Nayeem Akter |
| Term Start3: | 2002 |
| Term End3: | 2008 |
| Office6: | Member Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly |
| Constituency7: | Noorabad |
| Term Start6: | 1996 |
| Term End6: | 2002 |
| Term Start7: | 2008 |
| Term End7: | 2014 |
| Governor7: | N.N Vohra |
| 1Blankname7: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata7: | Omar Abdullah |
| Party: | Jammu and Kashmir National Conference |
Sakina Itoo (born 5 December 1970[1]) 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.[2] She has also served as minister for several departments, eg, Social Welfare and Administrative Reforms, Inspections, Trainings & Public Grievances, Education, Tourism, Floriculture .She is the Youngest Member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, she was only 26 year old when she won her first assembly election.
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.[3] [4]
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.[5] 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.[6] Later, she was appointed as a Minister of Tourism and served the department until 2002.[7] In 2002, she lost an assembly constituency election[2] and was later nominated as a Member of Legislative Council by the party in 2004.[7]
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.[8] [9] 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.[10]