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Rasheed Masood | |
|---|---|
| MP6th,7th,9th,10th,14th Lok Sabha | |
| Constituency | Saharanpur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1947-08-15)15 August 1947 |
| Died | 5 October 2020(2020-10-05) (aged 73) |
| Political party | Indian National Congress[1] |
| Other political affiliations | Janata Dal,Janata Party |
| Spouse | Shrimati Sualeha Rasheed[2] |
| Children | 2[2] |
| Residence(s) | Gangoh, Saharanpur |
As of 21 September, 2006 Source:[1] | |
Rasheed Masood (15 August 1947 – 5 October 2020)[2] was an Indian politician who was a 9 time MP, 5 time Lok Sabha and 4 time Rajya Sabha member and was anIndian politician, a member of theIndian National Congress party[1] and a member of theLok Sabha representingSaharanpur constituency inUttar Pradesh. He was known to be a one of successful politicians of Uttar Pradesh. He was a state health minister and he was also theUnited National Progressive Alliance candidate for thevice-president in the10 August 2007 election and placed third with 75 votes.[3]
He earnedB.Sc. andLLM fromAligarh Muslim University. Masood was an agriculturist by profession. He was general secretary ofBharatiya Lok Dal between 1975 and 1977. He was elected to the6th Lok Sabha for the first time on aJanata Party ticket in the post-emergency polls in 1977. He went on to become the treasurer of the Janata Parliamentary Party between 1979 and 1980.
Masood was re-elected to the7th Lok Sabha on aLok Dal ticket in the 1980 polls. After being the chief whip of Lok Dal in 1982, he became the deputy leader of Lok Dal Parliamentary Party for more than a year. He was the member of the Rajya Sabha from 1986 to '89. From 1989 to '91, he was a member of the9th Lok Sabha. From April to November 1990, he was Minister of Health and Family Welfare (Independent Charge) in theV P Singh government. In 1991 he was re-elected to the10th Lok Sabha.
In the late eighties, he was associated with Janata Party and was its deputy Parliamentary party leader. In the nineties, he joined theSamajwadi Party. He was the member of the14th Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009. In 2010, he was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha.
On 12 December 2011, he resigned from theRajya Sabha (Upper House) and from the Samajwadi Party and joined INC. He was elected as the special member of CWC (Congress Working Committee). He became the chairman of APEDA on 4 April 2013 for a term of 3 years.
On 5 October 2020, Masood died from complications ofCOVID-19 during theCOVID-19 pandemic in India.[4]
| Year | Constituency | Result | Vote percentage | Opposition Candidate | Opposition Party | Opposition vote percentage | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Saharanpur | Won | 67.32% | Zahid Hasan | INC | 25.62% | [5] |
| 1980 | Saharanpur | Won | 37.60% | Qamar Alam | JNP | 27.07% | [6] |
| 1984 | Saharanpur | Lost | 39.22% | Chaudhary Yashpal Singh | INC | 53.13% | [7] |
| 1989 | Saharanpur | Won | 54.55% | Chaudhary Yashpal Singh | INC | 34.09% | [8] |
| 1991 | Saharanpur | Won | 41.62% | Nakli Singh | BJP | 38.52% | [9] |
| 1996 | Saharanpur | Lost | 32.89% | Nakli Singh | BJP | 33.24% | [citation needed] |
| 1998 | Saharanpur | Lost | 18.07% | Nakli Singh | BJP | 33.19% | [10] |
| 1999 | Saharanpur | Lost | 27.64% | Mansoor Ali Khan | BSP | 30.53% | [11] |
| 2004 | Saharanpur | Won | 35.67% | Mansoor Ali Khan | BSP | 32.96% | [12] |
| 2009 | Saharanpur | Lost | 32.87% | Jagdish Singh Rana | BSP | 43.21% | [13] |
On 19 September 2013, a Special CBI court held Rasheed Masood guilty in a case of corruption and other offences. He was held guilty of fraudulently nominating undeserving candidates to MBBS seats allotted to Tripura in medical colleges across the country from the central pool.[14]
On 1 October 2013, Rasheed was sentenced to four years in jail.[15] As a result of the conviction, he was disqualified from theParliament of India. He, thus got the dubious distinction of becoming the first electedmember of parliament to be disqualified from theParliament of India, in the entirehistory of the Republic of India.[16] He was serving as a member of parliament, representing theCongress Party, to theupper house of the Indian parliament when the verdict was pronounced and his membership stripped.[17]
| Lok Sabha | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forSaharanpur 1977 – 1984 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forSaharanpur 1989 – 1996 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forSaharanpur 2004 – 2009 | Succeeded by |
| Rajya Sabha | ||
| Preceded by N/A | Member of Parliament forRajya Sabha(Uttar Pradesh) 1986 - 1989 | Succeeded by N/A |
| Preceded by N/A | Member of Parliament forRajya Sabha(Uttar Pradesh) 2010 - 2012 | Succeeded by N/A |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forRajya Sabha(Uttar Pradesh) 2012 - 2013 | Succeeded by |