It was renamed Fatehpur Thakiala to honour the late Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi.
His son Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan twice became the president and the prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
It was Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi, who led the popular agitation against an arbitrary tax on salt imposed by the Maharaja's regime.
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Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan was born into an eminent political Rajput family of Kashmir, he is the son of Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi, a name synonymous with one of the first major uprisings against the repressive Dogra regime in 1931.
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