Mohammad Farooq Chishti

Mohammad Farooq Chishti
Mohammad Farooq Chishti (M) Jawaharlal Nehru (R) and Govind Ballabh Pant (L)
MLA-318-Deoria (North East) Legislative Assembly Constituency, Uttar Pradesh
In office 1952 to 1957
In office 1957 to 1962
In office 1967 to 1968
Personal details
Born	1901 Deoria, India
Died	1968
Political party	Indian National Congress
Alma mater	King Edward School University of Allahabad

Mohammad Farooq Chishti (1901 - 1968) was a freedom fighter and politician from India. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the First Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. In 1952, Mohammad Farooq Chishti participated in the election on behalf of the Indian National Congress from the Deoria (North East) Legislative Assembly constituency of Deoria District of Uttar Pradesh.^[1] Farooq served as a MLA for three terms.

Early life[]

Mohammad Farooq Chishti was born in 1901 as the youngest son of Barrister Maulvi Muhammad Ismail Chishti, a resident of Railway Station Road Deoria. His father Barrister Maulvi Muhammad Ismail Chishti was born in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh when returned to India he settled in Deoria after graduating in Law from Cambridge University. Farooq's family enrolled him in King Edward School (now Government Inter College). From a very initial stage he started participating in Social movement to liberate the country. Farooq's name came up in the Chauri Chaura incident, which caused Headmaster Akhtar Adil to advise sending him to school elsewhere, to avoid a British reaction, he was then sent to Allahabad, where he is credited for organizing the students' first successful strike. During that time he came in contact with Mahatma Gandhi.

Political involvement[]

Farooq became so close to Gandhi and Nehru that whenever they came to the Deoria district, they would stay at the Chishti House, gradually Chishti House became safe house for all freedom fighters of Eastern Uttarpradesh. Farooq's elder brother Hamid Chishti also joined the fight for independence along with Maulana Mazharul Haq an important character of Independence movement, they blew the trumpet against the British rule during the First World War.

Farooq rejected the proposal of Muhammad Ali Jinnah brought by the King of Salempur of becoming the Home Minister of Pakistan saying "I want my country to achieve Freedom from Britishers and at this time my only mission is to see free united India".

After the Independence, he was elected as a MLA in 1952, 1957 and 1967 on Indian National Congress ticket from Uttar Pradesh's Deoria (North East) Legislative Assembly constituency. He died in 1968.

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