Imran Masood | |
Birth Date: | 1971 4, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Gangoh, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Residence: | Saharanpur |
Office1: | Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
Term Start1: | 13 May 2007 |
Term End1: | 9 March 2012 |
Predecessor1: | Jagdish Singh Rana |
Successor1: | Mahaveer Singh Rana |
Constituency1: | Muzaffarabad |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Term Start: | 4 June 2024 |
Predecessor: | Haji Fazlur Rehman |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Spouse: | Saima Masood |
Children: | 5 daughters |
Relations: | Rasheed Masood |
Otherparty: | Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party |
Constituency: | Saharanpur |
Education: | HR Inter College Gangoh (High school) |
Imran Masood (born 21 April 1971) is an Indian politician.He is currently serving Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Saharanpur. He has served as the Chairman of Saharanpur's Municipal Council and MLA from Muzzafarabad (now Behat) in Saharanpur District in the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly.
He was a vice president of Indian National Congress, Uttar Pradesh. He was also a member of Advisory Council in Uttar Pradesh Congress. He served as the National Secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC).
Masood was given ticket from the Congress party from the Saharanpur Lok Sabha constituency for the 2014 Indian general election. In March 2014, a video clip surfaced in which Masood was seen threatening then BJP's Prime-Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi.[1] In the video clip, Masood was allegedly threatening to "chop" Modi "into pieces."[2] Masood's partisans claim that this clip was six months old and had been deliberately leaked to polarize the electorate ahead of the Lok Sabha election. On 29 March 2014, he was arrested by for his hate speech against Narendra Modi.[3] Later on, he was defeated by BJP candidate Raghav Lakhanpal.
He contested 2017 assembly election of UP and lost.[4]
In the 2017 UP Vidhan Sabha elections Imran Masood fought from the Nakur Constituency. He lost to Dharam Singh Saini of BJP.
On 7 October 2023 Imran Masood again joined Indian National Congress.[5] He was subsequently named the party's candidate from Saharanpur for the 2024 Indian general election. Masood won the election by a margin of 5.25% against former MP Raghav Lakhanpal[6]
width=50 | Year | width=80 | Election Type | width=150 | Constituency | width=70 | Result | width=70 | Vote percentage | width=150 | Opposition Candidate | width=70 | Opposition Party | width=70 | Opposition vote percentage | width=25 | Ref |
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2006 | Chairman | Nagar Palika Parishad, Saharanpur | 43.60% | Harish Malik | BJP | 40.60% | [7] | ||||||||||
2007 | 28.14% | SP | 25.77% | [8] | |||||||||||||
2012 | 36.71% | 38.59% | [9] | ||||||||||||||
2014 | 34.15% | BJP | 39.60% | [10] | |||||||||||||
2017 | 35.51% | BJP | 37.11% | [11] | |||||||||||||
2019 | 16.81% | BSP | 41.74% | [12] | |||||||||||||
2024 | Saharanpur | 44.6% | Raghav Lakhanpal | BJP | 39.3% | [13] |