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'''Rasheed Masood''' (15 August 1947 – 5 October 2020) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the [[Indian National Congress]]. He was born in [[Saharanpur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He was a member of the [[Lok Sabha]] between 1977 to 1984, 1989 to 1996 and from 2004 to 2009. In 1990, he was the [[Ministry of Health and Family Welfare|Minister of Health and Family Welfare]].
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{{Infobox officeholder
|image = 
| honorific_prefix = [[Honourable]]
| name = Rasheed Masood
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1947|8|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Gangoh]], [[United Provinces (1937–50)|United Provinces]], [[Dominion of India|India]]
| residence = Gangoh, Saharanpur
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|10|5|1947|8|15|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Saharanpur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]
| constituency = [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]]
| office = [[Member of Parliament|MP]] [[6th Lok Sabha|6th]], [[7th Lok Sabha|7th]], [[9th Lok Sabha|9th]], [[10th Lok Sabha|10th]], [[14th Lok Sabha]]
| term =
| predecessor =
| successor =
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.ummid.com/news/2011/December/12.12.2011/rasheed_masood_joins_cong.htm|title=Samajwadi Party MP Rasheed Masood joins Congress|website=Ummid.com|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref>
| spouse = Shrimati Sualeha Rasheed <ref name="Archiive" />
| children = 2<ref name="Archiive" />
| website =
| footnotes =
| date = 21 September |
| year = 2006 |
| source =  http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=2454
}}


Masood died on 5 October 2020 at a hospital in [[Roorkee]], [[Uttarakhand]] from [[COVID-19]] at the age of 73.<ref>[https://theindianawaaz.com/former-union-minister-rasheed-masood-passes-away/ Former Union Minister Rasheed Masood Passes Away]</ref>
'''Rasheed Masood''' (15 August 1947 – 5 October 2020)<ref name="Archiive">{{cite web |title=Detailed Profile: Shri Rasheed Masood |url=https://archive.india.gov.in/govt/rajyasabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=1468 |website=archive.india.gov.in |publisher=Government of India |accessdate=31 March 2020}}</ref>
was 9 time MP, 5 time Lok Sabha and 4 time Rajya Sabha and was an [[List of political parties in India|Indian politician]], a member of the [[Indian National Congress]] party<ref name="auto"/> and a member of the [[Lok Sabha]] representing  [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur constituency]] in [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He was known to be a one of successful politician of Uttar Pradesh. He was a state health minister and  He was also the [[United National Progressive Alliance]] candidate for the  [[Vice-President of India|vice-president]] in the [[2007 Indian vice-presidential election|10 August 2007 election]] and placed third with 75 votes.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Hamid-Ansari-is-the-new-Vice-President/Article1-241686.aspx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125094312/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Hamid-Ansari-is-the-new-Vice-President/Article1-241686.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 January 2013|title=Hamid Ansari is the new Vice-President|newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]]|date=10 August 2007|last=Nagi|first=Saroj|author2=Srinand Jha |accessdate=4 March 2011}}</ref>


==References==
== Life ==
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He earned [[B.Sc]] and [[LLM]] from [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. Masood was an agriculturist by profession. He was general secretary of [[Bharatiya Lok Dal]] between 1975 and 1977. He was elected to the [[6th Lok Sabha]] for the first time on a [[Janata Party]] ticket in the post-emergency polls in 1977. He went on to become the treasurer of the Janata Parliamentary Party between 1979 and 1980.
Masood was re-elected to the [[7th Lok Sabha]] on a [[Lok Dal]] ticket in the 1980 polls. After being the chief whip of Lok Dal in 1982, he became the deputy leader of Lok Dal Parliamentary Party for more than a year. He was the member of the Rajya Sabha from 1986 to '89. From 1989 to '91, he was a member of the [[9th Lok Sabha]]. From April to November 1990, he was Minister of Health and Family Welfare (Independent Charge) in the [[V P Singh]] government. In 1991 he was re-elected to the [[10th Lok Sabha]].
In the late eighties, he was associated with Janata Party and was its deputy Parliamentary party leader. In the nineties, he joined the [[Samajwadi Party]]. He was the member of the [[14th Lok Sabha]] from 2004 to 2009. In 2010, he was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha.
 
On 12 December 2011, he resigned from the [[Rajya Sabha]] (Upper House) and from the Samajwadi Party and joined INC. He was elected as the special member of CWC (Congress Working Committee). He became  the chairman of APEDA  on 4 April 2013 for a term of 3 years.
 
On 5 October 2020, Masood died due to complications from [[COVID-19]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in India]].<ref>[https://theindianawaaz.com/former-union-minister-rasheed-masood-passes-away/ Former Union Minister Rasheed Masood Passes Away]</ref>
 
==Elections Contested==
 
===[[Lok Sabha]]===
 
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!width=50|Year
!width=120|Constituency
!width=70|Result
!width=70|Vote percentage
!width=150|Opposition Candidate
!width=70|Opposition Party
!width=70|Opposition vote percentage
!width=25|Ref
|-
|[[1977 Indian general election|1977]]|| [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Won}}|| 67.32% || Zahid Hasan ||[[Indian National Congress|INC]]||25.62% || <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=573&cid=84|title=Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate|website=Empoweringindia.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref>
|-
|[[1980 Indian general election|1980]]|| [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Won}}|| 37.60% || Qamar Alam ||[[Janata Party|JNP]]||27.07% || <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171203224445/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=530&cid=84]</ref>
|-
|[[1984 Indian general election|1984]]|| [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Lost}}|| 39.22% || [[Yashpal Singh (politician)|Chaudhary Yashpal Singh]] ||[[Indian National Congress|INC]]||53.13% || <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171203224457/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=461&cid=84]</ref>
|-
|[[1989 Indian general election|1989]]|| [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Won}}|| 54.55% || [[Yashpal Singh (politician)|Chaudhary Yashpal Singh]] ||[[Indian National Congress|INC]]||34.09% || <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=488&cid=84|title=Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate|website=Empoweringindia.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref>
|-
|[[1991 Indian general election|1991]]|| [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Won}}|| 41.62% || [[Nakli Singh]] ||[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]||38.52% || <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171203224454/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=677&cid=83]</ref>
|-
|[[1996 Indian general election|1996]]|| [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Lost}}|| 32.89% || [[Nakli Singh]] ||[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]||33.24% || <ref>[http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=414&cid=84] {{dead link|date=May 2018}}</ref>
|-
|[[1998 Indian general election|1998]]|| [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Lost}}|| 18.07% || [[Nakli Singh]] ||[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]||33.19% || <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=377&cid=84|title=Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate|website=Empoweringindia.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref>
|-
|[[1999 Indian general election|1999]]|| [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Lost}}|| 27.64% || [[Mansoor Ali Khan (politician)|Mansoor Ali Khan]] ||[[Bahujan Samaj Party|BSP]]||30.53% || <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=346&cid=84|title=Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate|website=Empoweringindia.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref>
|-
|[[2004 Indian general election|2004]]|| [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Won}}|| 35.67% || [[Mansoor Ali Khan (politician)|Mansoor Ali Khan]] ||[[Bahujan Samaj Party|BSP]] ||32.96% || <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=189&cid=80|title=Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate|website=Empoweringindia.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref>
|-
|[[2009 Indian general election|2009]]|| [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Lost}}|| 32.87% || [[Jagdish Singh Rana]] ||[[Bahujan Samaj Party|BSP]] ||43.21% || <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=277&cid=1|title=Empowering India - Making democracy meaningful, Know our Representative & Candidate|website=Empoweringindia.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref>
|}
 
== Corruption allegations and conviction==
 
On 19 September 2013, a Special CBI court held Rasheed Masood guilty in a case of corruption and other offences. He was held guilty of fraudulently nominating undeserving candidates to MBBS seats allotted to Tripura in medical colleges across the country from the central pool.<ref name="RS MP Rashid Masood found guilty in MBBS seat allocation case">{{cite news|title=RS MP Rashid Masood found guilty in MBBS seat allocation case|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/rs-mp-rashid-masood-found-guilty-in-mbbs-seat-allocation-case/423245-37-64.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922013355/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/rs-mp-rashid-masood-found-guilty-in-mbbs-seat-allocation-case/423245-37-64.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 September 2013|accessdate=30 September 2013|newspaper=IBM|date=19 September 2013 }}</ref>
 
On 1 October 2013, Rasheed was sentenced to four years in jail.<ref>{{cite news|title=Medical admission scam: Rasheed Masood gets 4 years in jail|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Admission-scam-Rasheed-Masood-gets-4-years-in-jail/Article1-1129574.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001095546/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Admission-scam-Rasheed-Masood-gets-4-years-in-jail/Article1-1129574.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 October 2013|accessdate=1 October 2013|newspaper=Hindustan Times|date=1 October 2013}}</ref> As a result of the conviction, he was disqualified from the [[Parliament of India]]. He, thus got the dubious distinction of becoming the first elected [[member of parliament]] to be disqualified from the [[Parliament of India]], in the entire [[history of the Republic of India]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Congress's Rasheed Masood jailed for 4 years in MBBS seat scam, loses RS seat|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/rasheed-masood-jailed-for-4-years-in-mbbs-seat-scam-loses-rs-seat/425697-37-64.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001092617/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/rasheed-masood-jailed-for-4-years-in-mbbs-seat-scam-loses-rs-seat/425697-37-64.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 October 2013|accessdate=1 October 2013|newspaper=CNN IBN|date=1 October 2013}}</ref> He was serving as a member of parliament, representing the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]], to the [[Rajya Sabha|upper house]] of the Indian parliament when the verdict was pronounced and his membership stripped.
 
== References ==
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{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament<br />for [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] |years=1989 – 1996}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Nakli Singh]]}}
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{{s-bef|before=[[Mansoor Ali Khan (politician)|Mansoor Ali Khan]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament<br />for [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] |years=2004 – 2009}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Jagdish Singh Rana]]}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament<br />for [[Rajya Sabha]] [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|(Uttar Pradesh)]] |years=1986 - 1989}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament<br />for [[Rajya Sabha]] [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|(Uttar Pradesh)]] |years=2010 - 2012}}
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{{s-bef|before=[[Mahmood Madani]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament<br />for [[Rajya Sabha]] [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|(Uttar Pradesh)]] |years=2012 - 2013}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Pramod Tiwari]]}}
{{s-end}}
 
== External links ==
 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110703132854/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=2454 Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121017120056/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-07-16/india/27990507_1_unpa-excellent-credentials-poll Masood is UNPA candidate for Vice Presidential poll]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927205709/http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/articles.aspx?newsid=80215 Masood UNPA candidate, VP poll likely to be triangular]
* [http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=383128&sid=NAT&sname= Rasheed Masood: Veteran of many a poll battle ]


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