He was admitted to AIIMS on December 24 after he complained of neck pain and fever. He had been put on ventilator support.
The Chief Minister breathed his last around 7.30 AM, Education Minister and spokesman for Government Nayeem Akhter said.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is the second Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister to die in office, the first one being Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah who died on September 08, 1982.
The mortal remains of the Chief Minister would be flown to Srinagar where the body will be kept for people to have the last glimpse of their leader.
He is likely be buried in his ancestral village in South Kashmir.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed(79), is survived by his wife, three daughters including PDP President Mehbooba Mufti, and a son.
Mufto Mohammad Sayeed took over as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in the People's Democratic Party (PDP)- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition on March 1, 2015.
His health had sparked off speculation that there could be a possible change of guard. Sayeed had himself hinted during a press conference in Jammu in November that he would like to hand over the reins to his daughter Mehbooba Mufti.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, "Mufti Sahab provided a healing touch to J&K through his leadership. He will be missed by all of us. Condolences to his family & supporters
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who heads the main opposition party in the state, visited AIIMS this morning. He also tweeted: "My heart felt sympathies to Mrs Syed, Mehbooba & the entire family in this most difficult of times. My & my family's prayers are with them
About Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
In 1989, he became India's first Muslim home minister in the VP Singh government. It was during his tenure that the controversial Armed Forces Special power Act was enforced in Jammu and Kashmir.
The revocation of this Act is one of the key slogans of his Jammu and KAshmir People's Democratic Party, which he formed along with daughter Mehbooba Mufti in 1999
PDP won 16 seats in the Valley in the 2002 assembly elections.
Following some hard bargaining with the Congress, Mr Sayeed became the Chief Minister of the first PDP-Congress government in the state that year. He stayed in office for three years under an arrangement of rotating the CM's post between the partners.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will also be remembered for the controversial and much-discussed release of some top Kashmiri militants in exchange for his daughter Rubiya Sayeed when he was the home minister.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was serving his second stint as J&K chief minister. He had taken oath in March 2014, several weeks after the state delivered a fractured verdict in assembly elections. His People's Democratic Party emerged as the single largest party but with not enough seats to form government. It has partnered in an often uneasy alliance with ideological opposite the BJP to govern Jammu and Kashmir.
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