S. T. Hasan

Dr. S. T. Hasan (Syed Tufail Hasan) is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Lok Sabha for Moradabad since 2019.

Syed Tufail Hasan
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
23 May 2019
Preceded byKunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh
ConstituencyMoradabad
Personal details
Born (1958-06-02) 2 June 1958
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Political partySamajwadi Party
Other political
affiliations
Mahagathbandhan
Bahujan Samaj Party
Spouse(s)Rizwana Hasan
Children4
Alma materJawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University
MBBS(1981)
M.S.(1984)
ProfessionDoctor
Net worth50.62 million (US$710,000)

Education

He is a trained doctor (surgeon) with MBBS and MS degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh of Aligarh Muslim University.[1]

Political career

Hasan has served as mayor of Moradabad and switched to Bahujan Samaj Party in 2009 from Samajwadi Party.[2] In 2014 Indian general election, Hasan contested from Moradabad constituency as a candidate of Samajwadi Party and was defeated by Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party.[3] On 30 March 2019, the party announced that Hasan would contest the upcoming 2019 Indian general election from Moradabad in place of Haji Nasir Qureshi. This was done as the local party leaders resented when Hasan was denied a ticket.[4][5] On 23 May, he was elected to Lok Sabha after defeating Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh by 97,878 votes.[3]

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