Mohammed Fareeduddin (14 October 1957 – 29 December 2021) was an Indian politician who served as a Member of the

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. He was elected unopposed as a

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(TRS) candidate in 2016.

Political career

Fareeduddin was a

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(MLA) for

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for ten years to 2009. He began his political career as a sarpanch of chota Hyderabad and Hothi B in Zahirabad mandal, representing the Zahirabad constituency as an

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(INC) politician. In the

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, the constituency, which had elected INC members in all but one of the elections since 1957, became

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for candidates from the Scheduled Castes and his party preferred to put J. Geeta Reddy forward as their candidate. Therefore, Fareeduddin instead contested the Amberpet constituency, where he lost to

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of the

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. He joined the TRS in August 2014. In 2016, as a TRS politician, Fareeduddin was elected as a Member of the Legislative Council of

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, a state that had been created in 2014 by the

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. The position had become vacant following the election of Thummala Nageswara Rao as an MLA. The election under the terms of the MLA's quota was unopposed.

Posts held

Fareeduddin became a minister in May 2004, when he was appointed in the government of Y. S. R. Reddy. He was Minister for Minority Welfare and Fisheries in 2004 and still in that office around February 2007. He became Minister for Co-operation in April 2007.

Personal life and death

Fareeduddin was born on 14 October 1957 in Hothi B village, Zaheerabad,

, India. He died from cardiac arrest at a private hospital in

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, on 29 December 2021, at the age of 67.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fareeduddin, Mohammed 1957 births 2021 deaths Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1999–2004 Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2004–2009 Members of the Telangana Legislative Council People from Medak district Bharat Rashtra Samithi politicians State cabinet ministers of Andhra Pradesh