Chaudhary Zakir Hussain is an Indian politician. He serves as administrator of Haryana Waqf Board

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. He is a three term former member of the

Haryana Legislative Assembly The Haryana Legislative Assembly or the Haryana Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral state legislature of Haryana state in India. The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Chandigarh, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 90 Members of L ...

from the Indian National Lokdal party. He represented the

Nuh (city) Nuh is a town and administrative headquarter of the Nuh Sub-Division and Nuh district in the Indian state of Haryana. It lies on the National Highway 248 (NH 48), also known as the Gurgaon-Sohna-Alwar highway, about from Gurgaon. History ...

and

Taoru Taoru or Tauru is a town, near Nuh city in Nuh district in the Indian state of Haryana. History Fort Fort of Taoru, also called Taoru Fort of Raja Nahar Singh, has chambers and rooms surrounded by high walls. It is presently used as a po ...

Vidhan sabha Constituency. He is National Vice President of

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Minority Morcha.

Ancestors

Hussain's grandfather Ch. Mohd. Yasin Khan served as Member of Punjab Legislative Council and Assembly from 1926 to 1946 and 1952 to 1962. He was elected unopposed to Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1952. He was the first college graduate in the Meo (Muslim) Community. He was responsible for the Meo Community's decision to stay in India at the behest of

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...

Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Husseini, Hussaini Azad (; 11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian Indian independence movement, independence activist, Islamic theologian, writer and a senior leader of the ...

and other leaders, instead of going to Pakistan. He founded many educational Institutions and was the leader of the Mewat area as a whole and Meo Community. His father Choudhary Tayyab Husain was a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) in 1971 and 1980 from

Gurgaon Gurgaon (pronunciation: �ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: �ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...

and

Faridabad Faridabad is the most populous city in the Indian state of Haryana and a part of Delhi National Capital Region. It is one of the major satellite cities around Delhi and is located 284 kilometres south of the state capital Chandigarh. The ri ...

respectively. He served as an MLA in

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1962, 1966; MLA in

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1966–67, 1984–87, 1987–91; and MLA in

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in 1993-98, 1998-2003. He served as MLA from 59 Tauru Assembly Constituency in Haryana. He served as Minister in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan several times. He is the only person in the country who served as Minister in three states. He was the Chaudhary (Social Head) of Meo (Muslim) Community which is about five crore in population mainly in Haryana, UP, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi etc. He was associated with several educational institutions. He was (i) General Secretary, Old Boys Associations, Aligarh Muslim University, (ii) Member, Court of AMU, (iii) Member, Executive Council of AMU and (iv) Vice President of the India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi. On 7 October, 2008 Late Ch. Tayyab Hussain died of a heart attack. On the eve of Fatiha, his eldest son Ch. Zakir Hussain was designated as the Chaudhary (Social Head) of Meo (Muslim) Community and Mewat by the representatives assembled at Nuh from all Over the country.

References

Living people Members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly Indian National Lok Dal politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Haryana People from Gurgaon Year of birth missing (living people) {{Haryana-BJP-politician-stub