Abdul Samad Siddiqui (died 21 November 2022) was an Indian educationist and politician who was a

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(

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) from Hyderabad - Karnataka region from 1988 till 1994. He was also one of the famous Muslim leaders from the North Karnataka region, known for his obsession with building educational institutes for the poor. Samad Siddiqui established numerous educational institutions like New Education Society, Millat Education Society etc. across Raichur city in the last 35 years of his life as an educationist and politician. Samad Siddiqui proposed KMDC(Karnataka Minority Loans) in Karnataka for the minorities to access the grants from the government and Deve Gowda had announced this in Ali bagh Glass house when he was janta party chief.He proposed Salaries for Wakf Employees When Mumbai roits took place he locked horns with PRIME MINISTER Narasimha rao and demanded him to step down from the post. He has made more than 34 institutes like maternity hospital in Raichur for the people of Raichur.

Life and career

Abdul Samad Siddiqui started his political journey with

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

which later merged to form

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. He served as the National General Secretary of the Janata Dal. After the split in the

he co-founded the

Lok Shakti Lok Shakti ( lit. People's Power) is a political party in India. Lok Shakti was one of several parties that were formed when the Janata Dal crumbled in the mid-1990s. LS was formed in February 1997 after Ramakrishna Hegde was expelled from Janata ...

which once was a state party in Karnataka, with

Ramakrishna Hegde Ramakrishna Mahabaleshwar Hegde (29 August 1926 – 12 January 2004) was an Indian politician who served as the tenth Chief Minister of Karnataka for three terms between 1983 and 1988. He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 19 ...

(Former Union Commerce Minister and Karnataka Chief minister) and many Janata Dal leaders. Samad Siddiqui served as the national vice-president of Lok Shakti from its inception. Siddiqui joined

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), alon ...

in Feb. 2013 during a rally in Bangalore. He was recently one of the educationists at the forefront of agitation to support establishment of Indian Institute of Technology at Raichur. Siddiqui died following a prolonged illness on 21 November 2022.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Siddiqui, Abdul Samad 20th-century births Year of birth missing 2022 deaths Indian Muslims 20th-century Indian educational theorists Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka People from Raichur Bahujan Samaj Party politicians Janata Party politicians Janata Dal politicians Lok Shakti politicians