Mohammed Fareeduddin

Mohammed Fareeduddin (14 October 1957 – 29 December 2021) was an Indian politician who served as a Member of the Telangana Legislative Council. He was elected unopposed as a Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate in 2016.^[1]

Mohammed Fareeduddin
Minister of Minority Welfare, Wakf, Sugar, Urdu Academy, and Hajj of Andhra Pradesh
In office 2004 – February 2007
Constituency	Zahirabad Assembly constituency
Minister of Co-operation and Fisheries & Public Enterprises of Andhra Pradesh
In office April 2007 – 2 September 2009
Succeeded by	Kasu Krishna Reddy
Constituency	Zahirabad Assembly constituency
Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office 1999–2009
Constituency	Zahirabad Assembly constituency
Chairman of the Committee on Welfare of Minorities of Telangana
In office 2019 – 29 December 2021
Member of the Telangana Legislative Council
In office 03 October 2016 – 03 June 2021
Personal details
Born	(1957-10-14)14 October 1957 Hothi B village, Zaheerabad, Telangana, India
Died	29 December 2021(2021-12-29) (aged 64) Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Political party	Telangana Rashtra Samithi (from August 2014 to 29 December 2021)
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress (until August 2014)
Children	3 including (Mohammed Mubeen)
Profession	Politician

Political career

Fareeduddin was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Andhra Pradesh for ten years to 2009. He began his political career as a sarpanch of chota Hyderabad and Hothi B in Zahirabad mandal, representing the Zahirabad constituency as an Indian National Congress (INC) politician. In the 2009 elections, the constituency, which had elected INC members in all but one of the elections since 1957, became reserved for candidates from the Scheduled Castes and his party preferred to put J. Geeta Reddy forward as their candidate. Therefore, Fareeduddin instead contested the Amberpet constituency, where he lost to G. Kishan Reddy of the Bharatiya Janata Party.^[2][3] He joined the TRS in August 2014.^[4]

In 2016, as a TRS politician, Fareeduddin was elected as a Member of the Legislative Council of Telangana, a state that had been created in 2014 by the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. The position had become vacant following the election of Thummala Nageswara Rao as an MLA.^[5] The election under the terms of the MLA's quota was unopposed.^[6]

Posts held

Fareeduddin became a minister in May 2004, when he was appointed in the government of Y. S. R. Reddy.^[7] He was Minister for Minority Welfare and Fisheries in 2004^[8] and still in that office around February 2007.^[9] He became Minister for Co-operation in April 2007.^[10]

Personal life and death

Fareeduddin was born on 14 October 1957 in Hothi B village, Zaheerabad, Telangana, India.^[9]

He died from cardiac arrest at a private hospital in Hyderabad, on 29 December 2021, at the age of 67.^[11][12]