Tahir Hussain Siddique is an Indian politician and leader of

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 ...

and an ex-member of

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 ...

(won on

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 ...

's ticket). He was arrested by the

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for possessing 10 live cartridges without licence at

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in 2007. He was convicted and sentenced to one-year imprisonment by the Court. Siddique contested from

Chhibramau Chhibramau (or Chibramau) is a nagar palika parishad and a subdivision (tehsil) of Kannauj district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Geography Chhibramau is located at . It has an average elevation of . History Chhibramau was l ...

seat on BSP's ticket in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election but got defeated by Archana Pandey

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 ...

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Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017 Living people People from Kannauj district Year of birth missing (living people) Samajwadi Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh {{UttarPradesh-SP-politician-stub