Majeed Ullah Khan Farhat

Majeed Ullah Khan Farhat is the president of Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) in Hyderabad in the Indian state of Telangana,^[1] He is controversial due to his views and as a main opponent of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM).

Majeed Ullah Khan Farhat
President, MBT
In office 5 June 2016
Preceded by	Dr Khayam Khan
Personal details
Born	19-11-1969 Hyderabad
Political party	Majlis Bachao Tehreek
Spouse	Mohammedi Khatoon (1997-present)
Children	Saif ullah khan,Saquib Ullah Khan, Zaid ullah Khan, Suhaibullah khan
Parent	Late Aman Ullah Khan. Amanullah Khan (politician) (father)
Residence(s)	Chanchalguda, Hyderabad
Profession	Politician, engineer

Majeed Ullah Khan Farhat is the son of five-time MLA Amanullah Khan. He is the contested MLA from the Yakutpura Assembly constituency and convener to the Bahujan Left Front (BLF). He is an engineer.^[2]

Majeed Ullah Khan Farhat is the exponent behind Majlis Bachao Tehreek political Operations.

Political career

Khan is very controversial as he was arrested in Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act or TADA ACT in the year 1993 and was in police custody for 3 months and in judicial custody for 9 months on the suspicion of having links with the accused of 1993 Bombings His father and their party ran a movement saying this was a dirty game of their opponent AIMIM to weaken their movement to rebuild the Babri Masjid. Following this Khan gained a huge popularity and was granted bail after a year just before 1994 AP Assembly elections his party due to the popularity won 2 seats i.e. his father from Chandryangutta Constituency and their close aide Mumtaz Khan from Yakutpura Constituency party reduced the AIMIM to single seat

1999 Assembly elections

Their close aide Mumtaz Khan switched sides and turned in favour of their arch rival AIMIM and contested on their ticket. So Khan for the first time ran for election but lost in a close fight

2004 General election

Khan ran for the Hyderabad Parliamentary against Asaduddin Owaisi and secured 3rd place with 47,000 votes

2014 Telangana assembly election

After a gap of a decade Khan returned on the election battle ground fully charged. Khan had a huge wave in his support. He was addressing thousands of people in his public meetings. Election looked one sided. He was contesting against Mumtaz khan who defeated him earlier. One the day of voting, Khan was arrested for violating model code if conduct. Khan alleged that his arrest was pre planned to weaken him. Khan lost the election once again to Mumtaz Khan he got 28,000 votes and secured 3rd place.^{[citation needed]}

2018 Assembly Election

He was caught up in a controversy. He openly gave death threat to Bhartiya Janta Party Member of Legislative Assembly T. Raja Singh and challenged him to come and fight him. This statement had very mixed reactions He contested the election and secured 23000 votes^{[citation needed]}

Education

He completed his schooling from St Paul’s High School Hyderguda. He has a degree of Civil Engineering from Karnataka University. He has qualified the prelims of UPSC and didn’t appear for the mains

Personal life

Khan was born on 19 November 1969 in Hyderabad. He is the fourth child of 7 siblings. He married on 23 August 1997 to Mohammedi Khatoon and the couple has four sons. He is the elder brother of MBT spokesperson Amjed Ullah Khan.

See also

• Amjed Ullah Khan
• Majlis Bachao Tehreek

References

1. . Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
2. "MBT Represents Student Rape Case to APSHRC". The Siasat Daily. 17 September 2013.

External links

• "MBT offers fig leaf to Owaisi brothers of MIM". twocircles.net. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
• . HyderabadWala. Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.