Obaidullah Khan Azmi is an Indian Politician and Islamic scholar belonging to the sunni movement of Islam. He joined Janata Dal (Secular) on 13 March 2023.Obaidullah Khan Azmi joins NCP
www.thefirstmail.in He was a member of

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, the upper house of the

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from 1990 to 2008. He represented Uttar Pradesh during 1990-96 and from Jharkhand during 1996–2002 from

Janata Dal Janata Dal () was an List of political parties in India, Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Lok Dal, Indian National Congress (Jagjivan), and the Jan Morcha on 11 October 1988—the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Na ...

party. During 1992–1996, he was General Secretary of Janata Dal and later became its Senior Vice-President. From 2002 to 2008 he represented

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from

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. He is the founder member of

All India Muslim Personal Law Board All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in India that represents the interests of Muslims in matters of personal law. It was formed in 1973 with the objective of protecting and promoting the appli ...

(AIMPLB) since 1973 and later went against it to form All-India Muslim Personal Law Conference (AIMPLC) with Arshadul Qadri in 1986 but the newly formed organization didn't work and later became a board member of AIMPLB. He was known as a great speaker of his time.

Shah Bano case protest

Obaidullah Khan Azmi became popular by his public speeches against

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Judgment in

Shah Bano case ''Mohd. Ahmad Khan v. Shah Bano Begum'' 985 commonly referred to as the Shah Bano case, was a controversial maintenance lawsuit in India, in which the Supreme Court delivered a judgment in favour of providing maintenance to an aggrieved divorce ...

. The audio cassettes of his speech were widely circulated and sold. He, at the time, had become a most sought-after speaker for anti-Shah Bano case meetings in

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filed case against the Maulana and expelled him from Mumbai declaring his speeches inflammatory.Akhbar e alam, Urdu weekly

Scholarly works

* ''Khutbaat-e-Azmi (Aazadi-e-Hind Aur Allama Fazle Haq Khairabadi)''

External links

Profile on Rajya Sabha website

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Shah Bano case protest

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