Abdul Hafeez Khan

Mohammed Abdul Hafeez Khan is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He has been a member of the YSR Congress Party since 2011 and represented Kurnool Assembly Constituency. He won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.

Early life and education
Hafeez khan was born in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh on January 31, 1977. He finished his secondary education in Montessori School and his intermediate, he pre university course, from Osmania College. Later, he did bachelors in Civil Engineering from Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology and a Masters in Computer Information Systems from University of Detroit Mercy. He graduated in the year of 2003 and continued working in the software industry in the USA till 2011.

Political career
Hafeez Khan joined as a district steering committee member of YSRCP in 2011 and then became the convenor of the District Minority Ccommittee in 2012. Later, he served as a central executive council member in 2013. In 2016, he became the Assembly Incharge. He was made the Additional Special Representative from Andhra Pradesh to the Middle East and Far East Countries for business development and investments in 2021.

He became an MLA for the first time winning the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election defeating T. G. Bharath of Telugu Desam Party by a margin of 5,353 votes. He polled 72,819 votes representing a 47.70% share of the votes in the constituency.

Service during pandemic
Khan led by example as he carried bodies of COVID 19 victims and buried them. In August 2020, during the peak of the pandemic, he helped perform last rites for many victims. He also made sure that the Kurnool Municipal Corporation performed the last rites as per their respective religion. Three burial sites were identified for different religions.