Maulana Habibur Rahman Nomani (21 August 1926 - 17 August 2005) was an Indian politician from

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

and belongs to the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

Political career

He served as a member of the

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-p ...

from 1969 to 1974, member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council from 1975 to 80,

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and Deputy Minister of Transport in the

Government of Uttar Pradesh The Government of Uttar Pradesh (ISO: Uttar Pradesh Sarkār; often abbreviated as GoUP) is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh with the governor as its appointed constitutional head of the state by the President of I ...

from 1970 to 1972 and again from 1976 to 1977. He was nominated to the

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

in 1993 and served till 1999. Maulana Nomani was

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of the

Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) is the Pradesh Congress Committee (state wing) of the Indian National Congress (INC) serving in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Congress Working Committee Appointed Priyanka Gandhi as General Secretary of UP ( ...

from 1973 to 1975. He died on 17 August 2005 at his hometown.

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Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1969–1974 People from Mau People from Mau district 1926 births 2005 deaths Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh {{UttarPradesh-INC-politician-stub