Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai is an Indian politician and a member of 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh representing Ram Nagar since March 2022. He is a member of the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; translation: ''Socialist Party'', founded 4 October 1992) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India, headquartered in New Delhi but mainly based in Uttar Pradesh, with significant presence in other states as w ...

. Kidwai had previously represented Masauli as a member of

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 the 15th, and Kursi in the 16th Uttar Pradesh Assembly as a Samajwadi Party candidate.

Personal life

Kidwai was born to Mahfooz Ahmad and hails from

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town of

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. He completed his

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from

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in 1966. Kidwai is an agriculturalist by profession.

Political career

As a member of

, Kidwai was elected as the

Member of Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. S ...

from Masauli constituency in the

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, after he defeated IJP's Rakesh Kumar Verma by 5,364 votes. However, in 2011, before completion of the five-year term, Kidwai left Bahujan Samaj Party to rejoin

. 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. But in the 2017 election, an incumbent Kidwai lost to

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candidate Sakendra Pratap Verma by margin of 28,679 votes. In the

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, Kidwai representing

as a candidate from Ram Nagar constituency, went on to defeat

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's incumbent MLA

Sharad Kumar Awasthi Sharad Kumar Awasthi (born 1 February 1967) is an Indian politician and a former MLA from Ram Nagar in the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Personal life Awasthi was born on 1 February 1967 to Ram Shankar Awasthi in Masauli villa ...

by a small margin of 261 votes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kidwai, Fareed Mahfooz 1940s births Living people Samajwadi Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027 People from Barabanki district Year of birth missing (living people)