Mohammed Taslimuddin

Taslimuddin
MP
Constituency	Kishanganj
Personal details
Born	4 January 1943 (1943-01-04) (age 68) Araria, Bihar
Political party	RJD
Children	3 sons and 2 daughters
Residence	Araria
As of September 26, 2006 Source: [1]

Mohammed Taslimuddin or simply Taslimuddin (born 4 January 1943) is an Indian criminal-politician and was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He used to represent the Kishanganj constituency of Bihar and is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) political party.

A powerful ganglord with several murder and rape charges pending against him, he was the Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

From 1969 to 1996, he was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly six times. In between, in 1989, he became a member of the 9th Lok Sabha. He has been a member of the 11th (1996), 12th(1998), and 14th Lok Sabhas (2004) .^[1]

In June 1996, he became a member of the Deve Gowda cabinet on the recommendation of Laloo Yadav. However, public anger in Bihar had forced an embarrassed Deve Gowda to prevail upon him to resign in the very next month.^[2]

Despite the Manmohan Singh government aspiring to a higher ethical standard, he was appointed Minister of State for the potentially lucrative Public Distribution ministry in May 2004. Unlike in 1996, there did not appear to have been much protest.

In News

• FIR against Union Minister Taslimuddin for demanding extortion
• Taslimuddin case : firms stall construction work

References

1. ^ Home Page on the Parliament of India's Website
2. ^ From Democracy to Kleptocracy. "Shankar Jha". Manushi. http://www.indiatogether.org/manushi/issue128/kleptocracy.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-12. Extracts from the Affidavit Submitted to the Venkatswamy Commission

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Name	Taslimuddin
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Date of birth	4 January 1943
Place of birth	Araria, Bihar
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