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Place of Birth: Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Rasheed Masood
- Rasheed Masood (born 15 August 1947) is an Indian politician, a member of the Indian National Congress party and a former member of the Lok Sabha representing Saharanpur constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
- He was a member of the Rajya Sabha.
- He was also the United National Progressive Alliance candidate for the Vice-President in the 10 August 2007 election and placed third with 75 votes.He has earned B.Sc and LLM from Aligarh Muslim University.Masood is an agriculturist by profession.
- He was general secretary of Bharatiya Lok Dal between 1975 and 1977.
- He was elected to the 6th Lok Sabha for the first time on a Janata Party ticket in the post-emergency polls in 1977.
- He went on to become the treasurer of the Janata Parliamentary Party between 1979 and 1980. Masood was re-elected to the 7th Lok Sabha on a Lok Dal ticket in the 1980 polls.
- After being the chief whip of Lok Dal in 1982, he became the deputy leader of Lok Dal Parliamentary Party for more than a year.
- He was the member of the Rajya Sabha from 1986 to 89.
- From 1989 to 91, he was a member of the 9th Lok Sabha.
- From April to November 1990, he was Minister of Health and Family Welfare (Independent Charge) in the V P Singh government.
- In 1991 he was re-elected to the 10th Lok Sabha. In the late eighties, he was associated with Janata Party and was its deputy Parliamentary party leader.
- In the nineties, he joined the Samajwadi Party.
- He was the member of the 14th Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009.
- In 2010, he was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha. On 12 December 2011 he resigned from rajya sabha(Upper House) and from the Samajwadi Party and joined INC.
- He was elected as the special member of CWC (Congress Working Committee).
- He became the chairman of APEDA on 4 April 2013 for a term of 3 year.
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