Azazul Haque is an Indian politician from

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. A two-time

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from the Ziradei constituency (2000-2005), he served as a minister of state in the

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government. He left the

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(RJD) to join Samras Samaj Party in 2010. His name is also transliterated as Ejaz-ul-Haq. Azazul Haque hails from Khalispur, Siwan. His father's name is Wajid Hussain. Haque won the 2000 Bihar Assembly elections as an RJD candidate from Ziradei. He received 63.2% of the votes, defeating Shyam Bahadur Singh of Samata Party. He again won the February 2005 elections, he again defeated Singh who fought as a

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candidate this time. However, Haque's vote share decreased to 43.66%. Haque was a minister of state in the

government. He was named by gangster Bhupendra Tyagi (aka Awadhesh Tyagi) as the supplier of weapons for use in an alleged plot to kill journalist

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. Haque was a minister of state in the

government. Shyam Bahadur Singh defeated Haque in the October 2005 elections. Haque received 32.54% of the votes, compared to Singh's 49.32%. Haque resigned from RJD in 2010, after the party denied him a ticket for the 2010 Assembly elections. He then became the state president of the little-known Samras Samaj Party. He unsuccessfully contested the 2010 elections from the Narkatiya constituency, as an

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candidate. In July 2015, an 18-year-old man Raghvendra Singh stabbed Haque at the latter's apartment in

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. Singh then fled with Haque's

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and his licensed

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. Haque was admitted to hospital with multiple stab wounds, after his neighbours alerted the police. Haque told the police that three robbers had barged into his apartment, and fled away with his SUV, 30,000 in cash and his revolver after stabbing him. The police traced Singh's cellphone to

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, and arrested him. During questioning, he claimed that he was employed as a data entry operator by Haque four days prior to the incident. He insisted that he attacked Haque in self-defense, after Haque tried to

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him. He also stated that he didn't steal any cash or the revolver; the revolver was present in the SUV which he used to escape. The police checked the

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footage of Haque's apartment building, and did not find any evidence of three men being involved in the incident, as claimed by Haque.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haque, Azazul Living people People from Siwan, Bihar 21st-century Indian Muslims Rashtriya Janata Dal politicians Bihar MLAs 2000–2005 Year of birth missing (living people)