Abdul Ghafoor
Abdul Ghafoor ( Hindi : अब्दुल गफूर ; * 1918 in Sareya Akhtiyar, Gopalganj District , Bihar and Orissa Province, British India , today: Bihar ; † July 10, 2004 in Patna , Bihar) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC) and later the Samata Party (SAP), who was Chief Minister of Bihar from 1973 to 1975 and also a member of the Lok Sabha . In the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet , he was minister for public works and housing between 1984 and 1985 and then minister for urban development from 1985 to 1986.
Life
Abdul Ghafoor, son of Shri Basir Ali, graduated from school at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), which he completed with a Master of Arts (MA). He completed another law degree at Banaras Hindu University with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He was involved in the independence movement, in which other later Chief Ministers of Bihar such as Bindeshwari Dubey , Bhagwat Jha Azad , Chandra Shekhar Singh , Satyendra Narayan Sinha and Kedar Pandey were active. After India gained independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, he began his political commitment to the Indian National Congress (INC) and was a member of the Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad) of Bihar , the upper house of the parliament of this state , for the first time in 1952 and was a member of this until 1967 on. He was chairman of the Legislative Council between 1952 and 1966. He then became a member of the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) , the lower house of Bihar, in 1968 and was a member until 1984. He was temporarily deputy minister and was on July 2, 1973 as the successor to his party friend Kedar Pandey Chief Minister of Bihar and held this office until April 10, 1975, whereupon Jagannath Mishra , who also belongs to the INC, succeeded him.
In the parliamentary elections on December 24, 27 and 28, 1984 , Ghafoor was elected for the first time for the INC as a member of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian parliament (Bhāratīya saṃsad) . He was a member until November 1989. Immediately after the election, on December 31, 1984, he took over from Buta Singh in the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet as Minister for Public Works and Housing and held this office until September 25, 1985. He then became Minister of Urban Development on September 25, 1985 and held this ministerial office until he was replaced by Mohsina Kidwai on October 22, 1986.
In the parliamentary elections on May 20, and June 12 and 15, 1991 , Abdul Ghafoor was again elected a member of the Lok Sabha, of which he was a member until May 1996. After he had left the Indian National Congress, he joined the party of equality SAP ( Samata Party ) founded by George Fernandes and Nitish Kumar in 1994 and was elected for them in the Gopalganj constituency belonging to Bihar in the parliamentary elections on May 16, 22, 23 . and February 28 and on March 7, 1998 for the third time a member of the Lok Sabha and was a member of this until October 1999. During this twelfth legislative period between 1998 and 1999 he was a member of the Lok Sabha Interior Committee and also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Communications.
His marriage to Shrimati M. Nissa in 1934 resulted in a son and two daughters.
Web links
- Entry on the Lok Sabha homepage
- Entry in Rulers
- Chief Ministers of Bihar
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bihar: Chief Ministers (Rulers)
- ^ Cabinet of Rajiv Gandhi
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ghafoor, Abdul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | अब्दुल गफूर (Hindi) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sareya Akhtiyar, Gopalganj District , Bihar and Orissa Province, British India |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 2004 |
| Place of death | Patna , Bihar |