Imran Masood

Imran Masood (born 21 April 1971) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chairman of Saharanpur's Municipal Council and MLA from Muzzafarabad seat (now Behat Seat) in Saharanpur District in the UP state assembly. He was a vice president of Indian National Congress, Uttar Pradesh. He was a member of Advisory council in Uttar Pradesh Congress. He was former National secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC).

Not to be confused with Imran Masood (Pakistani politician).

Imran Masood
Assumed office
June 3, 2021 (2021-June-03)
ConstituencySaharanpur
Ex AICC Secretary In-charge of Delhi
Ex MLA
Personal details
Born (1971-04-21) 21 April 1971
Gangoh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political partySamajwadi Party
Spouse(s)Saima Masood
RelationsRashid Masood
Children5 daughters
Residence(s)Saharanpur

Political career

He contested lok sabha election and secured 4.10 lakh votes. In March 2014, a video clip surfaced in which Masood was seen threatening the BJP's Prime-ministerial Candidate, Narendra Modi.[1] Masood's partisans claim that this clip was six months old and had been deliberately leaked to polarize the electorate ahead of the Lok Sabha election. BJP's Raghav Lakhanpal defeated him in 2014 Lok Sabha election 2014.He was contested for 2017 assembly election of UP and lost.[2]

On 29 March 2014, he was arrested by Police for his Hate Speech against Narendra Modi.[3]

In the 2017 UP Vidhan Sabha elections Imran Masood fought from the Nakur Constituency. Even though he was the only Muslim and a coalition candidate he still lost to Dr. Dharam Singh Saini of BJP.

  • Condidate India national Congress MP Seat Saharanpur yogi call Hate speech [4]

Post held
  • Chairman - Nagar Palika Parishad, Saharanpur (2006–07)
  • MLA - Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (2007–12)
  • Member - Privilege committee of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (2008–09)
  • Vice president of uttar pradesh in indian national congress ( 2019-2020)
  • Member of advisory council in uttar pradesh congress (2020-2021)
  • National secretary of All india congress committee(AICC) and secretary of delhi ( 2021-at present)

Elections contested
Year Election Type Constituency Result Vote percentage Opposition Candidate Opposition Party Opposition vote percentage Ref
2007MLAMuzaffarabadWon28.14%Jagdish Singh RanaSP25.77%[5]
2012MLANakurLost36.71%Dharam Singh SainiBSP38.59%[6]
2014MPSaharanpurLost34.15%Raghav LakhanpalBJP39.60%[7]
2017MLANakurLost35.51%Dharam Singh SainiBJP37.11%[8]
2019MPSaharanpurLost16.81%Haji Fazlur RehmanBSP41.74%[9]

Criminal Cases

Imran Masood has the following criminal cases pending against him:

1). 295, 153A Sec. 125 People R Act, Sec. 1(10) SC.ST Act, Crime no.230/14 Police Station Deoband, Saharanpur, Court taking Cognizance - ACJM Deoband, Cognizance date-03-07-14

2). Sec.3/4 PMLA Act, Parivaad no.1/13, Court taking Cognizance - District Court Lucknow, Cognizance date 04-05-2013, Court which charges framed- District Sessions Court Lucknow, Charges framed date 27-07-15

References
  1. "Congress candidate Imran Masood threatens to 'chop' Narendra Modi". Economic Times. 28 March 2014.
  2. "Imran Masood as Congress Candidate".
  3. "Imran Masood arrested for his Hate Speech against Narendra Modi". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. 29 March 2014.
  4. "Yogi Adityanath calls Congress candidate Imran Masood son-in-law of JeM terrorist Masood Azhar". 25 March 2019.
  5. http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=230&cid=403
  6. http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=754&cid=2
  7. http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=994&cid=1
  8. "Election Commission of India".
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4.http://www.ummid.com/news/2017/March/11.03.2017/imran-masood-loses-nakur-seat-by-3500-votes.html
5.http://myneta.info/uttarpradesh2017/candidate.php?candidate_id=1085


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