Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai

Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai
Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 March 2022
Preceded bySharad Kumar Awasthi
ConstituencyRam Nagar
In office
2012–2017
Succeeded bySakendra Pratap Verma
ConstituencyKursi constituency
In office
2007–2012
ConstituencyMasauli
Personal details
Born (1944-07-18) 18 July 1944 (age 80)
Masauli, United Provinces, British India
Political partySamajwadi Party (2011 - present)
Other political
affiliations		Bahujan Samaj Party (till 2011)
Spouse
Salma Kidwai
​
(m. 1977)​
Children2
Residence(s)Zaidpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Alma materAligarh Muslim University (M.Sc Biology, 1966)
ProfessionAgriculturalist

Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai (born 18 July 1944) is an Indian politician and a member of 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh representing Ram Nagar since March 2022.[1][2] He is a member of the Samajwadi Party.[1] Kidwai had previously represented Masauli as a member of Bahujan Samaj Party in the 15th, and Kursi in the 16th Uttar Pradesh Assembly as a Samajwadi Party candidate.[3][4]

Personal life

Kidwai was born to Mahfooz Ahmad in Masauli village of Barabanki district on 18 July 1944. He completed his Master of Science in biology from Aligarh Muslim University in 1966. He married Salma Kidwai on 15 January 1977, with whom he has two sons. Kidwai hails from Zaidpur town of Uttar Pradesh and is an agriculturalist by profession.[1][5]

Political career

As a member of Bahujan Samaj Party, Kidwai was elected as the Member of Legislative Assembly from Masauli constituency in the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, after he defeated IJP's Rakesh Kumar Verma by 5,364 votes.[6][7] However, in 2011, before completion of the five-year term, Kidwai left Bahujan Samaj Party to rejoin Samajwadi Party.[3]

Representing Kursi constituency in the 2012 election, Kidwai was able to defeat Bahujan Samaj Party's Kumari Meeta Gautam by a margin of 23,937 votes.[4][8] But in the 2017 election, an incumbent Kidwai lost to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sakendra Pratap Verma by margin of 28,679 votes.[4]

In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Kidwai, representing Samajwadi Party as a candidate from Ram Nagar constituency, went on to defeat Bharatiya Janata Party's incumbent MLA Sharad Kumar Awasthi by a small margin of 261 votes.[9][2][10]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai (Samajwadi Party(SP)): Constituency - Ram Nagar (Barabanki) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Uttar Pradesh-Ram Nagar". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  3. ^ a b "BSP MLA Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai deserts party, joins SP". Zee News. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "Kursi Assembly Constituency Election Result 2022 - Candidates, MLAs, Live Updates & News". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  5. ^ "री फरीद महफूज किदवई". Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai (Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP)):Constituency- Masauli (Barabanki) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 2007". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  8. ^ भदौरिया, योगेश (25 February 2022). "Kursi Assembly Seat: 2012 में दौड़ी साइकिल, 2017 में खिला कमल, जानिए अब 2022 में क्या हैं सियासी समीकरण" [Kursi Assembly Seat: Cycle ran in 2012, Lotus bloomed in 2017, know now what are the political equations in 2022]. Navbharat Times (in Hindi). Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Ram Nagar, Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Results 2022 LIVE Updates: SP's Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai with 98799 defeats BJP's Sharad Kumar Awasthi". India Today. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  10. ^ "Ram Nagar Election Result 2022 LIVE Updates: Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai of SP Wins". News18. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2022.