Fauzia Tahseen Khan | |
Birth Date: | 19 February 1957 |
Birth Place: | Aurangabad, Bombay State, India |
Residence: | Parbhani, Maharashtra, India |
Office: | Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha |
Term Start: | 3 April 2020 |
Constituency: | Maharashtra |
Predecessor: | Majeed Memon |
Term Start1: | 20 April 2018 |
1Namedata1: | Sharad Pawar |
1Blankname1: | National President Nationalist Congress Party |
Office2: | Member of Maharashtra State Board Of Waqf |
Term Start2: | 2009 |
Office3: | Minister of state in Government of Maharashtra |
Term Start3: | 2009 |
Term End3: | 2014 |
Office4: | Minister of state in Government of Maharashtra |
Term Start4: | 2008 |
Term End4: | 2009 |
Term Start5: | 21 February 2002 |
Term End5: | 20 February 2008 |
Constituency5: | Nominated |
Term Start6: | 2008 |
Term End6: | 2014 |
Constituency6: | Nominated |
Party: | NCP(SP) |
Spouse: | Tahseen Ahmed Khan |
Children: | 1 Son, 1 Daughter |
Occupation: | Agriculture/Educationist |
Education: | M.A., M.Phil., PhD. |
Footnotes: | Sansad Ratna Awardee (2022) |
Fouzia Khan or Fauzia Tahseen Khan, also known as Fauzia Khan, is an Indian politician of the Nationalist Congress Party. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha the upper house of Indian Parliament from Maharashtra.[1] She is the National president of Nationalist Mahila Congress (NCP's Women's wing),[2] an Ex-Minister of State of Government of Maharashtra in India. She was two time M.L.C. i.e. member of Legislative Council the upper house of Maharashtra Legislature.[3] [4] Convent-educated Khan is the first Muslim woman in the state who has served as minister in the Maharashtra government.[5]
She was minister of state (junior minister) with portfolios for School Education, Women & Child Development, Cultural Affairs, General Administration, Information & Public Relations, Minorities Development (including Aukaf), and Protocol.[6]
Fauzia Khan belongs Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) of Sharad Pawar. She has been two times served as member of legislative council of Maharashtra. Her paternal home is Aurangabad, Maharashtra. She moved to Parbhani after marriage where she started her political career by contesting the election for the post of President of Parbhani Municipal Council.
Fauzia Khan heads the Federation of All Maharashtra Minority Education Organisation (FAME) and runs several educational institutions in Parbhani.[7]
In the year 2008 she donated 5 acres of land to develop off-campus educational complex by Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) at Aurangabad.[8]
As a minister in Govt. of Maharashtra she was instrumental in identifying a 332-acre site for Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Maharashtra Center at Khuldabad near Aurangabad.[9] [10]