Meet Muslim MPs of 18th Lok Sabha

1. Yusuf Khan Pathan of the Trinamool Congress won from Bahrampur, West Bengal. Pathan, 42, is an Indian former cricketer and politician of the Trinamool Congress. A right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler, Pathan made his debut in first-class cricket in 2001/02. His younger brother, Irfan Pathan was also an Indian cricketer. He contested…

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Mohammed Atherulla Shariff

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June 12, 2024
  1. Yusuf Khan Pathan of the Trinamool Congress won from Bahrampur, West Bengal. Pathan, 42, is an Indian former cricketer and politician of the Trinamool Congress. A right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler, Pathan made his debut in first-class cricket in 2001/02. His younger brother, Irfan Pathan was also an Indian cricketer. He contested the parliamentary election for the first time and got elected.

 

  1. Congress’ Rakibul Hussain from Dhubri in Assam secured 14.71 lakh. Hussain, 59,has been serving as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly since 2021. He has been anMLA from the Samaguri Assembly constituency since 2001. A Postgraduate in Political Science from Aligarh Muslim University, Hussain held several portfolios in Tarun Gagoi’s government in the state such as Home, Border Area Development, and Passport, etc. He contested the parliamentary election for the first time.

 

  1. Congress’ Imran Masood won from Saharanpur by a margin of 64,542. Masood, 51, has served as Chairman of Saharanpur’s Municipal Council and MLA from Muzzafarabad seat in Saharanpur District in the UP Assembly. He was a vice president of INC, Uttar Pradesh. He has entered the parliament for the first time. He had contested in 2014 also, but lost to BJP candidate. He is (in)famous for threatening Narendra Modi and was even arrested for hate speech against him in 2014.

 

  1. Samajwadi Party’s Iqra Hasan Choudhary, 29, secured victory over BJP’s Pradeep Kumar by 69,116 votes from Kairana.

Her father, Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan is former Member of Rajya Sabha, and Begum Tabassum Hasan is former Member of Lok Sabha. She comes from a political background as her grandfather, father, mother all were former Members of Parliament and currently her brother Choudhary Nahid Hasan is 3rd term Incumbent MLA from Kairana.

Iqra completed her MSC in International Politics Law from SOAS University, London in 2020.

Iqra started her political career in 2016 by contesting for Zila Panchayat election and lost by 5000 votes. She started election campaign for her brother Nahid Hasan who was jailed in some cases, she led the campaign and marked his brother as a winning candidate from Kairana Assembly constituency.

  1. SP’s MohibbullahNadvi won the Rampur seat by securing 4,81,503 votes. He is the Imam of the Parliament Street Mosque in Delhi. After his Madrasa education, Mohibullah Nadvi completed his education with a Master of Arts at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 2009. He contested for the first time and won.

  1. Zia Ur Rehman Barq won fromSambhal by a margin of 1.2 lakh votes. He has been also a member of the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly since 10 March 2022 from Kundarki (Moradabad district). His grandfather Shafiq ur Rahman Barq was also an MP from Sambhal. He has a Bachelor of Law and Arts too. He is remembered for raising the issue of teaching Islamic Studies at Banaras Hindu University after a controversy at Aligarh Muslim University to teach Sanatan Dharma.

 

  1. SP’s Afzal Ansari, Ghazipur, UP has entered the lower house for the third time. A cousin of former Vice President of India Hamid Ansari, Afzal is a Post Graduate from Gorakhpur University. His father Subhanullah Ansari was chairman of Nagar Palika Parishad, Mohammadabad, and was elected unopposed. His grandfather Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari served as president (1926–1927) of All-India Muslim League, as well as the Indian National Congress (INC), and was one of the founders of the Jamia Millia Islamia.

  1. AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi won from Hyderabad for the fifth consecutive time by a margin of 3,38,087, defeating his nearest rival BJP’s Madhavi Latha Kompella. He is a barrister by profession and studied at Lincoln’s Inn in London.

 

  1. Independent candidate Mohammad Haneefa won by a margin of 27,862. Haji Mohmad Haneefa Jan is from the Kargil district of Ladakh, the only constituency in the Union Territory of Ladakh. He came out victorious in the triangular contest, the two other candidates in the fray were Tsering Namgyal of INC and Tashi Gyalson of BJP.

 

  1. Independent candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh, Baramulla bagged 4.7 lakh votes, defeating the former chief minister Omar Abdulla with a margin of 204142.

Abdul Rashid is the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir Awami Ittehad Party.He is former two-time MLA from the Langate constituency of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir, which he won in 2008 and 2014. He also contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections but was defeated. He contested all these polls as an independent candidate.

Engineer Rashid is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail. He was arrested by the NIA in 2019 on charges of terror-funding activities, becoming the first recognised leader to be held under UAPA.

His two sons Asrar Rashid and Abrar Rashid had led the election campaign for their father. They had exuded confidence in his father securing maximum votes based on the crowd strength at the rallies.

 

  1. Mian Altaf Ahmad Larviof the National Conference won in Anantnag-Rajouri by 2,81,794, defeating former chief minister Mahbooba Mufti. He is the younger son of Mian Bashir Ahmed Larvi, a politician and Caliph of Islamic Sufi order in Jammu and Kashmir. Mian Altaf is grandson of saint Mian Nizamuddin, founding President of Gujjar-Jat Conference, a socio-political body established in 1932. He is a law graduate from the University of Kashmir.

 

  1. National Conference’s Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, secured 3,56,866 Srinagaragainst his rival Waheed ur Rahman Para of PDP, who got 168450 votes. He is a well-known Shia leader succeeding his father Aga Syed Mehdi. He is ex-MLA from Budgam and a former cabinet minister. He won three times assembly elections from Budgam constituency. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Aligarh Muslim University.

 

  1. Bihar: Congress’ Tariq Anwar won from Katiharby a margin of 49,863 votes against JD(U) candidate Dulal Chandra Goswami. He served as the Minister of State of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries between 2012 and 2014.

Anwar has been anMP for more than three decades – elected five times to the Lok Sabha from Katihar, and two times to the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. He quit the INC over a presidency dispute of the party in 1999 and formed the Nationalist Congress Party along with Sharad Pawar and P.A. Sangma, before resigning 19 years later and re-joining the INC in 2018. Anwar has been appointed both General Secretary in-charge of poll-bound Kerala and a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).

 

  1. Indian Union Muslim League’s ET Mohammad Basheer won from Malappuram, Kerala. Basheer was first elected to Kerala Assembly in 1985. Basheer was first elected to Kerala Assembly in 1985. He served as the Kerala State Education Minister (1991–96 and 2001–06) under K. Karunakaran, A.K. Antony and Oommen Chandy.He has been anMP since 2009 (2009, 2014 and 2019).

 

  1. IUML’s Abdus Samad Samdani won from Ponnani, Kerala. An Indian politician, orator, writer and scholar,Samadani knows Malayalam, English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit languages. Samadani was awarded a Ph.D. from JNU. Earlier Samadani did Master of Arts and M. Phil. from the University of Calicut in 1986 and LLB from Government Law College, Kozhikode in 2003.

Samadani is a two-time Parliament member (Rajya Sabha: 1994-2000, 2000-2006). He was a member of Kerala Assembly (Kottakkal constituency) from 2011 to 2016. He was nominated as the Convenor of the Parliamentary Sub-committee on Universities and Higher Education and Member of Central Advisory Board of Education, Government of India. He was also a member of India’s official and parliamentary delegations to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Jordan, appointed by the Union government. He also worked as a member of Kerala Sahitya Academy and Kerala Kalamandalam. He was elected as Member of Lok Sabha representing Malappuram through a bye-election held in 2021.

 

  1. IUML’s K Navas Kani has been representing Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuramparliamentary constituency since 2019. He is a member of Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare and Consultative Committee, Ministry of Shipping.

 

  1. Congress’ Shafi Parambil was elected from Vadakara thrice to the Kerala Assembly in 2011, 2016 and 2021. This time in the Lok Sabha election, he won from the Vadakara constituency against K.K. Shailaja with a margin of 114516 votes.

 

  1. Congress’ Mohammed Jawed won from Kishanganj, Bihar. He did MBBS from Govt. Medical College, Kashmir University in 1989. Later he moved into politics. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kishanganj constituency in 2019. Earlier in the 2000 Bihar Assembly election, he won from Kishanganj constituency. He was re-elected in Feb. 2005, 2010 and 2015 from the same constituency.He is currently Secretary of AICC. He served as Law, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister, Chief whip during his tenure as an MLA. He’s also a former working president of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee.

 

  1. Congress’ Isha Khan Chowdhry, won from Maldha Dakshin, WB. He represented Sujapur constituency in the West Bengal Assembly as a Congress candidate. His father is Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury is the brother of A.B.A. Ghani Khan Choudhury and Abu Nasar Khan Choudhury, former cabinet ministers in the central government.

 

  1. SK Nurul Islam won from Basirhat, WB, TMC. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

 

 

 

  1. TMC’s Khalilur Rahman won from Jangipur, WB. He was elected to the lower house earlier in 2019 from Jangipur for the first time.

 

  1. TMC’s Abu Tahir Khan won from Murshidabad, WB. He was an MLA from 2001 to 2018. He successfully contested Parliamentary elections in 2019. This is his second entry into the lower house.

 

 

 

  1. TMC’s Sajida Ahmed won from Uluberia, WB. Wife of late MP Sultan Ahmed, Sajida was elected to Lok Sabha bye-poll from Uluberia parliamentary constituency by a margin of over 4.74 lakh votes and becamea member of the 16th Lok Sabha. She was re-elected in 2019. This is her third term.

 

 

  1. Congress’ Mohammed Hamdulla Sayeed won from Lakshadweep. He is the son of former Member of Parliament, late PM Sayeed. First time he was elected to Lok Sabha in 2009 at the age 26. He was the youngest MP in the 15th Lok Sabha.