Syed Tufail Hasan | |
Caption: | Official Lok Sabha Portrait (2019) |
Birth Date: | 1958 6, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Office1: | MAYOR |
Constituency1: | Moradabad |
Predecessor1: | Veena Agarwal |
Successor1: | Veena Agarwal |
Party: | Samajwadi Party |
Otherparty: | Mahagathbandhan |
Alma Mater: | Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University MBBS(1981) M.S.(1984) |
Profession: | Doctor |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Constituency: | Moradabad |
Predecessor: | Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh |
Successor: | Ruchi Veera |
Term Start: | 23 May 2019 |
Term End: | 4 June 2024 |
Termstart1: | 2006 |
Termend1: | 2012 |
Syed Tufail Hasan is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Lok Sabha for Moradabad since 2019.
He is a trained doctor (surgeon) with MBBS and MS degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh of Aligarh Muslim University.[1]
Hasan has served as mayor of Moradabad from 2006 to 2012. In 2014 Indian general election, Hasan contested from Moradabad constituency as a candidate of Samajwadi Party and was defeated by Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party.[2] On 30 March 2019, the party announced that Hasan would contest the upcoming 2019 Indian general election from Moradabad in place of Haji Nasir Qureshi. This was done as the local party leaders resented when Hasan was denied a ticket.[3] [4] On 23 May, he was elected to Lok Sabha after defeating Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh by 97,878 votes.[2]