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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Mohammad Shakeel
|image = M Shakil.jpg
|constituency_AM = Lucknow West
|assembly = Uttar Pradesh Legislative
|term_start = 1974

|term_end = 1979
|predecessor = [[Syed Ali Zaheer]]
|successor = [[Zafar Ali Naqvi]]
|birth_date =
|birth_place = [[Lucknow]]
|death_date = 24 December 2007<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Dainik Jagran|date=28 December 2007}}</ref>
|death_place = Lucknow
|restingplace = Lucknow
|nationality = Indian
|party = [[Indian National Congress]]
|otherparty = [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]], [[Praja Socialist Party]]
|spouse = Begum Akhtar Jehan
|relations = son of [[Hakim Abdul Aziz]]
|children = 3
|residence = Akbari Gate, Lucknow
|occupation = Trade union activist
|profession = Labour lawyer
|committees = Executive Committee, Lucknow Municipal Corporation
}}

'''M Shakeel''' (''full name: Mohammad Shakeel, alt: M Shakil'') was an [[Indian freedom fighter]], politician, [[Urdu]] novelist, trade union activist and labour lawyer from the city of [[Lucknow]], India.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dailynewsactivist.com/Details.aspx?id=14199&boxid=28659790&eddate=7%2F17%2F2011 |title=Details from the DNA newspaper |access-date=21 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041341/http://www.dailynewsactivist.com/Details.aspx?id=14199&boxid=28659790&eddate=7%2F17%2F2011 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Rashtriya Sahara|date=31 October 2006}}</ref> Born in the famous Azizi family of physicians, he was the grandson of [[Hakim Abdul Aziz]].<ref>{{cite book | author=Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman | year = 1978 | title = Tazkerah Khandan Azizi| edition = 2009 revised 2nd | pages = 228–229| publisher=[[Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences]] | location = Aligarh/India | isbn = 978-81-906070-6-3}}</ref>

==Early life==
Born in 1927, Shakeel joined the [[Indian National Movement]] in his youth,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Dainik Jagran|date=11 November 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Dainik Jagran|date=2 November 2006}}</ref> and was imprisoned by the British at the age of 14 years.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Rahman|first=Hakim Syed Zillur |title= Tahreek Azadi Main khandan Azizi Ka Hissa |journal=[[Naya Daur (magazine)|Naya Daur]] |date=August 1978 |volume= 35 |issue=5 |pages=28–32 }}</ref> Though released after 21 days, he was arrested several times again over the years for delivering inflammatory speeches. After the independence of India, Shakeel joined the [[Praja Socialist Party]], and remained a companion of [[Jayaprakash Narayan]], [[Ram Manohar Lohia]] and [[Acharya Kriplani]].{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} His wife, Begum Akhtar Jehan, was herself an educationist and principal of the Kashmiri Mohalla Girls' School.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

==Political career==
In 1960, Shakeel was elected to the first Lucknow Municipal Corporation, and undertook social work in establishing the Nakhas and Pratap Markets in Lucknow. After the dissolution of the Praja Socialist Party, Shakeel joined the [[Indian National Congress]] and won the 1974 Assembly elections from the densely populated Lucknow West constituency.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1974/Statistical_Report_Uttar_Pradesh_1974.pdf |title=Highlights of 1974 elections Govt. of India |access-date=17 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128021528/http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1974/Statistical_Report_Uttar_Pradesh_1974.pdf |archive-date=28 January 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Hindustan|date=8 April 2007}}</ref>

Shakeel continued to argue labour cases for farmers, and trade unions throughout his career. He also served as President of Bhartiya Khadya Nigam Mazdooor Sangh. In 1976, he was instrumental in getting the practice of contractual labour for public cooperatives being abolished by the courts in [[Uttar Pradesh]].{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

==Legacy==
[[File:M Shakeel.jpeg|thumb|M Shakeel (1st left) leading a procession in Old Lucknow with the then [[Chief Minister]] [[ND Tiwari]]]]
Shakeel's works in Urdu poetry and literature have been published by Kitabi Duniya. In 2011, recognising Shakeel's immense contributions to Lucknow, a road was named after him in the Old City.<ref>[http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/epaper/article/index.php?page=article&choice=print_article&location=37&category&articleid=111716553672088216 Shakeel's contributions reported by Dainik Jagran newspaper]</ref> This road lies next to another one named after his grandfather [[Hakim Abdul Aziz]].{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

==See also==
*[[Indian National Congress]]
*[[Indian National Movement]]

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[[Category:Politicians from Lucknow]]
[[Category:Indian Muslims]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Urdu-language fiction writers]]
[[Category:Trade unionists from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian lawyers]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1974–1977]]
[[Category:Praja Socialist Party politicians]]
[[Category:Urdu-language poets from India]]
[[Category:Writers from Lucknow]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]
[[Category:Poets from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Novelists from Uttar Pradesh]]

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