Manzoor Ahmad (politician)

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Manzoor Ahmad

| office = 04th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh

| party = Samyukta Socialist Party

| native_name = मंज़ूर अहमद

| native_name_lang = Hi

| termend = Apr 1968

| termstart = Mar 1967

| termend1 = Mar 1974

| termstart1 = Apr 1968

| office1 = 05th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh

| birth_date = 1930

| birth_place = Kithor, Meerut

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|3|6|1930||}}

| parents = Basheer Ahmad (father)

}}

Manzoor Ahmad (1930 – 6 March 2022) was an Indian politician member of the 04th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and 05th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Samyukta Socialist Party representing the Kithore Assembly constituency{{Cite web |title=🗳️ Manzoor Ahmad, Kithore Assembly Elections 1969 LIVE Results {{!}} Election Dates, Exit Polls, Leading Candidates & Parties {{!}} Latest News, Articles & Statistics {{!}} LatestLY.com |url=https://www.latestly.com/elections/assembly-elections/uttar-pradesh/1969/kithore/manzoor-ahmad/ |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=LatestLY |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Kithore Assembly Constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly Constituency |url=https://resultuniversity.com/election/kithore-uttar-pradesh-assembly-constituency |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=resultuniversity.com}}{{Cite web |title=Kithore Election Result 2022 LIVE: Kithore MLA Election Result & Vote Share - Oneindia |url=https://www.oneindia.com/kithore-assembly-elections-up-46/ |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=www.oneindia.com |language=en}}

Murder

On 6 March 2022, Manzoor Ahmad was shot and killed.{{Cite news |date=2003-09-13 |title=Manzoor murder: High Court orders CBI probe |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/manzoor-murder-high-court-orders-cbi-probe/articleshow/179942.cms |access-date=2023-06-12 |issn=0971-8257}}

Lucknow police put up barricades at various places. The police wanted to take the memorandum by stopping the SP leaders on Vikramaditya Marg itself. However, this was not possible and the SP leaders sat on a dharna outside gate number two of the Raj Bhavan.{{fact|date=August 2024}}

The SP leader wanted to submit a memorandum to the then Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri. A large number of police, PAC and RAF personnel were deployed there. The then ASP City Rajesh Pandey and other officers also took the lead. Police officers were deciding the future strategy. The then ASP City Rajesh Pandey says that when he reached there with the officers, a man wearing a white kurta pajama was lying face down and bleeding from his back. On closer inspection, he came to know that he had been shot. The police officer could have understood that a young man was seen running at a short distance.{{fact|date=August 2024}}

A siege was laid to catch the young man and the police also got success. The young man had a bag in his hand, in which a pistol was kept. There was a hole in the bag, which showed that the bullet was fired from inside it. In a short while the one who got shot was identified as MLA Manzoor Ahmad. The SP leader got angry with the incident and snatched the youth from police custody and tried to thrash him. Somehow the young man was saved after a lot of struggle and the police took him to Hazratganj police station. On the other hand, the doctors at the Civil Hospital declared the MLA brought dead.{{Cite news |date=2002-03-08 |title=SP MLA shot dead near UP Raj Bhawan |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/sp-mla-shot-dead-near-up-raj-bhawan/articleshow/3001307.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2023-06-04 |issn=0971-8257}}

References

Category:2022 deaths

Category:Samyukta Socialist Party politicians

Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1967–1969

Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1969–1974

Category:Indian politicians assassinated in the 20th century

Category:1930 births

Category:Politicians assassinated in 2022