Tanveer Aziz Sait is an Indian politician who was the Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education of Karnataka from 2016 to 2018. He is Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Narasimharaja constituency since May 2002. Sait is a five-term member of the

Karnataka Legislative Assembly The Karnataka Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of the six states in India where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses. The two houses ar ...

Personal life

Sait is the son of prominent Muslim leader

Aziz Sait Azeez Sait (15 March 1926 – 28 December 2001) was an Indian politician who served as the Minister of State for Transport, Tourism, Labour Wakf Department and Industries and Commerce of Karnataka from 1972 to 1984. A prominent minority leader ...

Career

Sait is from 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 ...

and represents the

Narasimharaja Narasimharaja is a locality in Mysore. It hosts one of the constituencies of Karnataka State Legislative Assembly. Elections were first held here for this seat in 1967. Tanveer Sait is from the Indian National Congress and represents Narasimhara ...

constituency of

Mysore Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...

, Karnataka. The constituency has been served by Sait's family for over five decades. Sait's father Alhaj

was a veteran congress leader and held the Narasimharaja Assembly seat six times from 1967 to 1999. After the demise of

in December 2001 his political legacy, the Narasimharaja assembly seat led to a family feud in the Sait family as Tariq Sait grandson of

and nephew of Tanveer Sait campaigned for the

Janata Dal (Secular) The Janata Dal (Secular) is an Indian political party led by former prime minister of India, H. D. Deve Gowda. The party is recognized as a State Party in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh. It was formed in July 1999 by the ...

candidate Maruthi Rao Pawar in the 2002

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

assembly election against his uncle Tanveer Sait. In the 2002 by-election Sait won the Narasimharaja Assembly seat by above 10000 votes against Maruthi Rao Pawar from the

. In the following election of 2004 Sait won the assembly seat by above 20000 against Maruthi Rao Pawar from the

. In the 2008 assembly election Sait beat S. Nagaraju (Sandesh) of the

by about 6000 votes. Sait is the sitting member of the

from Narasimharaja constituency as he retained the seat again in the 2013 assembly election winning against Abdul Majid K H of the

Social Democratic Party of India The Social Democratic Party of India, popularly known as SDPI, is an Indian political party which was founded on 21 June 2009 in New Delhi. The party is considered the political wing of the banned Islamic organization Popular Front of India (P ...

by about 8000 votes. Sait won the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election from the Narasimharaja constituency defeating the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

candidate by about 17000 votes.

Ministry

While he was holding the Primary and Secondary Education Ministry portfolio, Tanveer Sait was also the chairman of the Karnataka Minorities Development Corporation Limited and in-charge of the Minority Welfare and

Wakf A waqf ( ar, وَقْف; ), also known as hubous () or '' mortmain'' property is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law. It typically involves donating a building, plot of land or other assets for Muslim religious or charitabl ...

department of Karnataka. As the Minister in-charge of Minority Welfare, he urged the Karnataka State Board of Wakfs to appoint an administrator to the Rifahul Muslimeen Educational Trust.

Controversy

Leading –

news channel

TV9 (Kannada) TV9 Kannada is a 24-hours Kannada language entertainment channel in India. It was launched on 9 December 2006. The channel aires hourly news, analysis of major news events and interviews etc. The news channel is owned by Associated Broadcast ...

reported that Sait was caught seeing "objectionable" pictures of women on his cellphone during the Tipu Jayanti celebrations in

Raichur Raichur (formerly Raichore) is a city and municipality in the district of Raichur in the Indian state of Karnataka. Raichur, located between Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers, is the headquarters of Raichur district. It is located 409 km fr ...

on 10 November 2016. Tanveer Sait was attacked by an unknown person in the early hours of Monday at an event in Mysuru. The MLA was attacked with a sharp knife, causing injuries on 18 November 2019. According to preliminary investigation, the accused has been identified as 20-year-old Farhaan from Mysuru.

References

External links

Karnataka Legislative Assembly
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sait, Tanveer Living people Karnataka MLAs 2008–2013 Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023 1967 births Indian Muslims