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Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind elects Maulana Mahmood Madani as its interim president
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Maulana Mahmood Madani has been elected as the interim president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind. (Photo Credit: PTI)
Mahmood Madani was elected to the Rajya Sabha as a member of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) from Uttar Pradesh and served in the Upper House from 2006 to 2012.
New Delhi: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind said on Thursday that Maulana Mahmood Madani has been elected as the interim president of the prominent Muslim body. The election was held days after its chief Muhammad Usman Mansoorpuri passed away due to COVID-19 related complications. Madani was elected as the interim chief of the Jamiat (Mahmood Madani faction) at a meeting of the organisation's national working committee, at its headquarters in New Delhi. In a statement released by the body, they said that Madani was elected as the interim president of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH) with the consensus of all the members. The JUH said in a tweet, "Hazrat Maulana Mahmood Madani Sahib was unanimously elected the President of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind by the Executive Council of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind."
The announcement was made by the president of the meeting, Maulana Rahmatullah Kashmiri, the body said in the statement. With Madani being elected as the president, his post as the general secretary of JUH fell vacant. Maulana Hakimuddin Qasmi has been appointed interim general secretary of the body, it said. Maulana Qari Mohammad Usman Mansoorpuri, the president of JUH, had passed away on May 21 at Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon, due to COVID-19 related complications, at the age of 76.
The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind is a Muslim body that was established in the year 1919 and Mufti Kifayatullah Dehlawi was its first elected president. The JHU was an organisation that had opposed the partition of India during independence. They opposed the two-nation theory and favoured a united India. Madani became the general secretary of the body in 2001. Before becoming the general secretary, Madani served as the organising secretary of the JUH.
Madani was elected to the Rajya Sabha as a member of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) from Uttar Pradesh and served in the Upper House from 2006 to 2012. He is the son of Islamic scholar and politician Maulana Syed Asad Madani. Asad Madani was also a Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh. He was a member of the Congress party and served three terms in the Upper House.
In the 2021 list of the world's 500 most influential Muslims released by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Mahmood Madani was ranked 27. His political career started with the Samajwadi Party (SP). Later, he joined the Congress and in 2004 he became a member of the RLD.
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