Rasheed Masood

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name = Rasheed Masood
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1947|8|15|df=y
birth_place = Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh
residence = Saharanpur
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constituency = Saharanpur
office = MP
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party =SP
spouse = Sualeha Rasheed
children = 1 son and 1 daughter
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date = September 21
year = 2006 |
source = http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=2454

Rasheed Masood (born 15 August, 1947) is an Indian politician for the Saharanpur Lok Sabha Constituency in Uttar Pradesh and the chosen vice-presidential candidate in the 2007 poll for the United National Progressive Alliance.

A B.Sc and LLM from Aligarh Muslim University, Masood is an agriculturist by profession. He was general secretary of Bharatiya Lok Dal between 1975 and 1977. He was elected to 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 1979-80. Masood was re-elected to 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. From April-November 1990, he was Minister of Health and Family Welfare (Independent Charge) in the V P Singh government. 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.

In July 2007, Rasheed is picked as the candidate from the Third Front for the Indian Vice Presidential Elections.

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* [http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=2454 Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]
* [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Masood_is_UNPA_candidate_for_Vice_Presidential_poll/articleshow/2207810.cms Masood is UNPA candidate for Vice Presidential poll]

* [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 ]