Majeed Ullah Khan Farhat

Majeed Ullah Khan Farhat is the president of Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) in Hyderabad in the Indian state of Telangana,^[1] He is controversial due to his views and as a main opponent of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM).

Majeed Ullah Khan Farhat is the son of five-time MLA Amanullah Khan. He is the contested MLA from the Yakutpura Assembly constituency and convener to the Bahujan Left Front (BLF). He is an engineer.^[2]

Majeed Ullah Khan Farhat is the exponent behind Majlis Bachao Tehreek political Operations.

Political career[]

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Khan is been very controversial as he was arrested in in the year 1993 and was in police custody for 3 months and in judicial custody for 9 months on the suspicion of having links with the accused of 1993 Bombings His father and their party ran a movement saying this was a dirty game of their opponent AIMIM to weaken their movement to rebuild the Babri Masjid. Following this Khan gained a huge popularity and was granted bail after a year just before 1994 AP Assembly elections his party due to the popularity won 2 seats i.e. his father from Chandryangutta Constituency and their close aide Mumtaz Khan from Yakutpura Constituency party reduced the AIMIM to single seat

1999 Assembly elections[]

Their close aide Mumtaz Khan switched sides and turned in favour of their arch rival AIMIM and contested on their ticket. So Khan for the first time ran for election but lost in a close fight

2004 General election[]

Khan ran for the Hyderabad Parliamentary against Asaduddin Owaisi and secured 3rd place with 47,000 votes

2014 Telangana assembly election[]

After a gap of a decade Khan returned on the election battle ground fully charged. Khan had a huge wave in his support. He was addressing thousands of people in his public meetings. Election looked one sided. He was contesting against Mumtaz khan who defeated him earlier. One the day of voting, Khan was arrested for violating model code if conduct. Khan alleged that his arrest was pre planned to weaken him. Khan lost the election once again to Mumtaz Khan he got 28,000 votes and secured 3rd place.

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External links[]

• "MBT offers fig leaf to Owaisi brothers of MIM". twocircles.net. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
• "MBT leader Amjed Ullah Khan urges KCR not to give permission for Shobha Yatra on the occasion of Ram Navami 2015". HyderabadWala. Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.