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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Distinguish|Imran Masood (Pakistani politician)}}
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| name = Imran Masood
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1971|04|21|}}
| birth_place = [[Gangoh]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]
| residence = [[Saharanpur]]
|office1 = [[All India Congress Committee|Ex AICC]] Secretary In-charge of Delhi
| term_start = {{Start date|2021|June|3}}
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| constituency = [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]]
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| office2 = Ex MLA
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| party = [[Samajwadi Party]]
| nationality =
| spouse = Saima Masood
| children = 5 daughters
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| website = {{Official website|http://www.imranmasood.com}}
| footnotes =
| relations = [[Rashid Masood]]
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'''Imran Masood''' (born 21 April 1971) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chairman of Saharanpur's Municipal Council and MLA from Muzzafarabad seat (now Behat Seat) in [[Saharanpur District]] in the UP state assembly.
He was a vice president of [[Indian National Congress]], Uttar Pradesh.
He was a member of Advisory council in Uttar Pradesh Congress.
At present he is National secretary of [[All India Congress Committee]] (AICC).

== Political career ==
He contested lok sabha election and secured 4.10 lakh votes. In March 2014, a video clip surfaced in which Masood was seen threatening the BJP's Prime-ministerial Candidate, Narendra Modi.<ref name="ref-37638699">{{cite news|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/congress-candidate-imran-masood-threatens-to-chop-narendra-modi/articleshow/32834234.cms|title=Congress candidate Imran Masood threatens to 'chop' Narendra Modi|newspaper=Economic Times|date=28 March 2014}}</ref> Masood's partisans claim that this clip was six months old and had been deliberately leaked to polarize the electorate ahead of the Lok Sabha election. BJP's Raghav Lakhanpal defeated him in 2014 Lok Sabha election 2014.He was contested for 2017 assembly election of UP and lost.<ref>{{cite news|title=Imran Masood as Congress Candidate|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-up-elections-2017-cong-candidate-list-includes-imran-masood-who-threatened-to-chop-up-pm-modi-2295187}}</ref>

On 29 March 2014, he was arrested by Police for his [[Hate Speech]] against [[Narendra Modi]].<ref name="bp">{{cite web|title=Imran Masood arrested for his Hate Speech against Narendra Modi|url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/03/imran-masood-arrested-for-his-hate-speech-against-narendra-modi/|work=IANS|publisher=news.biharprabha.com|date=29 March 2014}}</ref>

In the 2017 UP Vidhan Sabha elections Imran Masood fought from the Nakur Constituency. Even though he was the only Muslim and a coalition candidate he still lost to Dr. [[Dharam Singh Saini]] of BJP.
* Condidate India national Congress MP Seat Saharanpur yogi call Hate speech <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abplive.in/election/yogi-adityanath-calls-congress-candidate-imran-masood-son-in-law-of-jem-terrorist-masood-azhar-948989|title = Yogi Adityanath calls Congress candidate Imran Masood son-in-law of JeM terrorist Masood Azhar|date = 25 March 2019}}</ref>

==Post Held==
* Chairman - Nagar Palika Parishad, Saharanpur (2006–07)
* MLA - [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] (2007–12)
* Member - Privilege committee of [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] (2008–09)
* Vice president of uttar pradesh in indian national congress ( 2019-2020)
* Member of advisory council in uttar pradesh congress (2020-2021)
* National secretary of All india congress committee(AICC) and secretary of delhi ( 2021-at present)

==Elections Contested==

{|class="sortable wikitable"
|-
!width=50|Year
!width=80|Election Type
!width=150|Constituency
!width=70|Result
!width=70|Vote percentage
!width=150|Opposition Candidate
!width=70|Opposition Party
!width=70|Opposition vote percentage
!width=25|Ref
|-
|[[2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2007]]|| [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|MLA]] ||[[Muzaffarabad (Assembly constituency)|Muzaffarabad]] ||{{Won}}|| 28.14% || [[Jagdish Singh Rana]] ||[[Samajwadi party|SP]]||25.77% || <ref>[http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=230&cid=403]</ref>
|-
|[[2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2012]]||[[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|MLA]] || [[Nakur (Assembly constituency)|Nakur]] ||{{Lost}}|| 36.71% || [[Dharam Singh Saini]] || [[Bahujan Samaj Party|BSP]] ||38.59% || <ref>[http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=754&cid=2]</ref>
|-
|[[2014 Indian general election|2014]]|| [[Loksabha|MP]] || [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Lost}}|| 34.15% || [[Raghav Lakhanpal]] ||[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]||39.60% || <ref>[http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=994&cid=1]</ref>
|-
|[[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017]]||[[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|MLA]] || [[Nakur (Assembly constituency)|Nakur]] ||{{Lost}}|| 35.51% || [[Dharam Singh Saini]] ||[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]|| 37.11%|| <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS242.htm?ac=2|title = Election Commission of India}}</ref>
|-
|[[2019 Indian general election|2019]]|| [[Loksabha|MP]] || [[Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saharanpur]] ||{{Lost}}|| 16.81% || [[Haji Fazlur Rehman]] ||[[Bahujan Samaj Party|BSP]]||41.74% || <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://results.eci.gov.in/pc/en/constituencywise/ConstituencywiseS241.htm?ac=1 |title=Archived copy |access-date=27 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525051527/http://results.eci.gov.in/pc/en/constituencywise/ConstituencywiseS241.htm?ac=1 |archive-date=25 May 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|}

== Criminal Cases ==
{{BLP unsourced section|date=January 2021}}
Imran Masood has the following criminal cases pending against him:

1). 295, 153A Sec. 125 People R Act, Sec. 1(10) SC.ST Act, Crime no.230/14 Police Station Deoband, Saharanpur, Court taking Cognizance - ACJM Deoband, Cognizance date-03-07-14

2). Sec.3/4 PMLA Act, Parivaad no.1/13, Court taking Cognizance - District Court Lucknow, Cognizance date 04-05-2013, Court which charges framed- District Sessions Court Lucknow, Charges framed date 27-07-15

==References==
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4.http://www.ummid.com/news/2017/March/11.03.2017/imran-masood-loses-nakur-seat-by-3500-votes.html
5.http://myneta.info/uttarpradesh2017/candidate.php?candidate_id=1085

==External links==
{{Wikiquote}}
* {{Official website|http://www.imranmasood.com}}

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[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:People from Saharanpur district]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1971 births]]
[[Category:United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election]]

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