Imran Masood (born 21 April 1971; ) is an Indian politician. He is currently serving

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from

Saharanpur Saharanpur is a city and a Municipal corporation (India), municipal corporation in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is also the public administration, administrative headquarters of Saharanpur district. Saharanpur city's name was given after the Sain ...

. He is one of the famous politician. He has served as the Chairman of Saharanpur's Municipal Council and MLA from Muzzafarabad (now Behat) in

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in the

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. He was a vice president of

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, Uttar Pradesh. He was also a member of Advisory Council in Uttar Pradesh Congress. He served as the National Secretary of

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(AICC).

Political career

Masood was given ticket from the Congress party from the Saharanpur Lok Sabha constituency for the

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. In March 2014, a video clip surfaced in which Masood was seen threatening then BJP's Prime-Ministerial candidate,

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. In the video clip, Masood was allegedly threatening to "chop" Modi "into pieces." 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. On 29 March 2014, he was arrested by for his

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against

. Later on, he was defeated by BJP candidate Raghav Lakhanpal. He contested 2017 assembly election of UP and lost. In the 2017 UP Vidhan Sabha elections Imran Masood fought from the Nakur Constituency. He lost to Dharam Singh Saini of BJP. On 7 October 2023 Imran Masood again joined Indian National Congress. He was subsequently named the party's candidate from Saharanpur for the

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. Masood won the election by a margin of 5.25% against former MP Raghav Lakhanpal.

Positions held

* Chairman - Nagar Palika Parishad, Saharanpur (2006–2007) * MLA -

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(2007–2012) * Member - Privilege committee of

(2008–2009) * Vice president of Uttar Pradesh Congress (2019-2020) * Member of advisory council in Uttar Pradesh Congress (2020-2021) * National secretary of

(AICC) and secretary of Delhi (2021-2022) * Member of Parliament (

) (2024–present)

Elections contested

References

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