Rasheed Masood

Rasheed Masood (15 August 1947 – 5 October 2020)[2] was an Indian politician, a member of the Indian National Congress party[1] and a member of the Lok Sabha representing Saharanpur constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha. He was also the United National Progressive Alliance candidate for the Vice-President in the 10 August 2007 election and placed third with 75 votes.[3]

Honourable Rasheed Masood
MP 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 14th Lok Sabha
Constituency	Saharanpur
Personal details
Born	15 August 1947 Gangoh, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died	5 October 2020 (aged 73) Saharanpur
Political party	Indian National Congress[1]
Spouse(s)	Shrimati Sualeha Rasheed [2]
Children	2[2]
Residence	Gangoh, Saharanpur
As of 21 September, 2006 Source:

Life

He earned B.Sc and LLM from Aligarh Muslim University. Masood was an agriculturist by profession. He was general secretary of Bharatiya Lok Dal between 1975 and 1977. He was elected to the 6th Lok Sabha for the first time on a Janata 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 the 7th Lok Sabha on a Lok 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 the 9th Lok Sabha. From April to November 1990, he was Minister of Health and Family Welfare (Independent Charge) in the V P Singh government. In 1991 he was re-elected to the 10th Lok Sabha.

In the late eighties, he was associated with Janata Party and was its deputy Parliamentary party leader. In the nineties, he joined the Samajwadi Party. He was the member of the 14th Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009. In 2010, he was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha. On 12 December 2011 he resigned from Rajya 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 due to complications from COVID-19.[4]

Elections Contested

Loksabha

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%	[10]
1998	Saharanpur	Lost	18.07%	Nakli Singh	BJP	33.19%	[11]
1999	Saharanpur	Lost	27.64%	Mansoor Ali Khan	BSP	30.53%	[12]
2004	Saharanpur	Won	35.67%	Mansoor Ali Khan	BSP	32.96%	[13]
2009	Saharanpur	Lost	32.87%	Jagdish Singh Rana	BSP	43.21%	[14]

Corruption allegations and conviction

On 19 September 2013 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.[15]

On 1 October 2013 Rasheed was sentenced to four years in jail.[16] As a result of the conviction, he was disqualified from the Parliament of India. He, thus got the dubious distinction of becoming the first elected member of parliament to be disqualified from the parliament, in the entire history of the Republic of India.[17] He was serving as a member of parliament, representing the Congress Party, to the upper house of the Indian parliament when the verdict was pronounced and his membership stripped.

References

1. "Samajwadi Party MP Rasheed Masood joins Congress". Ummid.com. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
2. "Detailed Profile: Shri Rasheed Masood". archive.india.gov.in. Government of India. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
3. Nagi, Saroj; Srinand Jha (10 August 2007). "Hamid Ansari is the new Vice-President". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
4. Former Union Minister Rasheed Masood Passes Away
5. "Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate". Empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
8. "Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate". Empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
11. "Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate". Empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
12. "Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate". Empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
13. "Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate". Empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
14. "Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate". Empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
15. "RS MP Rashid Masood found guilty in MBBS seat allocation case". IBM. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
16. "Medical admission scam: Rasheed Masood gets 4 years in jail". Hindustan Times. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
17. "Congress's Rasheed Masood jailed for 4 years in MBBS seat scam, loses RS seat". CNN IBN. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.

External links

• Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
• Masood is UNPA candidate for Vice Presidential poll
• Masood UNPA candidate, VP poll likely to be triangular
• Rasheed Masood: Veteran of many a poll battle